Wyclef Jean Quotes

I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

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• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Back

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• I don't really yell at people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Really
  • Yell

• During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Place
  • Mirror
  • Half

• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Facts
  • Explain

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Best
  • Focus
  • Story

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?

  

  Wolfgang Weingart
  • inspirational
  • Typography
  • Noticing

• Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

  

  John Erskine
  • People
  • Done
  • Painting

• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Family
  • Father
  • Parents