Wyclef Jean Quotes
When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
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A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
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I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
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I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
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Well, it was a great childhood, and he was bigger-than-life, a wonderful guy, very intelligent, and a big influence on me, and a great supporter, too. He was always interested in what I was doing and ready to give me advice or help me and he would call me out of the blue, and I really miss him. He left us in '92, and it's still a shock to me to think that he's not around because he had so much energy, and loved life and loved people, and he was "The Rifleman." He was that and a lot more.
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
