Wyclef Jean Quotes

My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

Wyclef Jean Fugees

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Stop

• If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

  

  FKA twigs
  • You
  • Pain
  • Artist

• Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Change
  • English
  • Matter

• I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Boxing
  • Obsessed
  • Jiu jitsu

• I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Work
  • She
  • Knowledge

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Truck

• It isn’t at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation.

  

  Edward Said
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Optimistic

• We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.

  

  Jonathan Grayer
  • Time

• «Tomorrow I have the pain of the parade.'

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Pain

• Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

  

  Alex Stamos
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Hood
  • Ghetto
  • Churches