Wyclef Jean Quotes
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
Quotes to Explore
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.
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Instead of letting the driver-base grow organically , we are setting up driver-training schools across different districts in the country.
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Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
