Wyclef Jean Quotes
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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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.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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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.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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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?
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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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.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
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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.
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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.
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I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
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Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
