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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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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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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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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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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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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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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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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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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My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.
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When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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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?
