My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slings...
WYCLEF JEAN I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good t...
WYCLEF JEAN I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever sin...
WYCLEF JEAN 'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work wi...
WYCLEF JEAN When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians o...
WYCLEF JEAN I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
WYCLEF JEAN It's not fake. I don't need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To fin...
WYCLEF JEAN When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would b...
WYCLEF JEAN Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dre...
WYCLEF JEAN You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find o...
WYCLEF JEAN A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
WYCLEF JEAN There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
WYCLEF JEAN You never really know how you come to the earth, it's really a mystery, and when you leave, it's sor...
WYCLEF JEAN I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and...
WYCLEF JEAN I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream.
WYCLEF JEAN She looks the most beautiful when she's in the field natural, no makeup, nothing, Because you see An...
WYCLEF JEAN All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
WYCLEF JEAN When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches.
WYCLEF JEAN My parents were Christian.
WYCLEF JEAN We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.
WYCLEF JEAN When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carn...
WYCLEF JEAN My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somew...
WYCLEF JEAN My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
WYCLEF JEAN I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it fo...
WYCLEF JEAN We produce, and we have producers we work with.
WYCLEF JEAN When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and w...
WYCLEF JEAN When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms...
WYCLEF JEAN Right now, I've got the lead in what I'm doing. I'm in the best position. No one expects me to come ...
WYCLEF JEAN You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pre...
WYCLEF JEAN I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there ...
WYCLEF JEAN When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to ...
WYCLEF JEAN It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, yo...
WYCLEF JEAN When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or s...
WYCLEF JEAN I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - m...
WYCLEF JEAN Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s...
WYCLEF JEAN Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be su...
WYCLEF JEAN Her beauty lies in her work. She looks the most beautiful in the field -- natural, no makeup, nothin...
WYCLEF JEAN You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
WYCLEF JEAN I'm the King of Spring Ting! Without 'Clef you can't have no Spring Ting!
WYCLEF JEAN I know country people who have The Carnival.
WYCLEF JEAN I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brook...
WYCLEF JEAN I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listenin...
WYCLEF JEAN We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on.
WYCLEF JEAN When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the...
WYCLEF JEAN I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you'll hear more of the commercial hip-ho...
WYCLEF JEAN What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti.
WYCLEF JEAN The way that I could describe Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, it was just glowing. What connects them ...
WYCLEF JEAN That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your fa...
WYCLEF JEAN When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, a...
WYCLEF JEAN I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just...
WYCLEF JEAN For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
WYCLEF JEAN I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes.
WYCLEF JEAN When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they...
WYCLEF JEAN Definitely when I got on the plane to go back to Haiti, it was an emotional thing for me. It definit...
WYCLEF JEAN My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes an...
WYCLEF JEAN I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pi...
WYCLEF JEAN There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAU Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL