Wyclef Jean Quotes
My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
Quotes to Explore
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
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Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.
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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
