Wyclef Jean Quotes
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.
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I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
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By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.
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He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
