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Wyclef Jean

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And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
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We are all just a bunch of freaks. Some are just more honest about it.
KAKKZ
We're very proud of where we come from.
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We dropped some balls, the kicking game wasn't very good.
BOBBY HAUCK
We just recently had a function where we had to go into the student assistance fund to get players s...
BILLY DONOVAN
We've gone backwards from where we were yesterday on some very important work rules.
BOB BEDARD
We have some young kids who are good. It's just a matter of who's going to play where and who's goin...
COLLEEN PARKER
We made a mistake on the first play, and when you score on the first play you get momentum going. Th...
GERALD TEMPLES
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about...
BRAD PITT
We all come together in the recording studio and just play, then I take it and put lyrics to it. We ...
BO CARWILE
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Perhaps we should acknowledge where others come from, as it might just be where we are headed.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
The coach and GM of the Crusaders junior hockey club came by. If people from the area wanted to come...
BRIAN HALL
To be honest, I don't know where we're at right now. We were feeling pretty good about ourselves whe...
BRIAN PERKES
They did an awesome job, ... Some of the lyrics, I just couldn't believe it. Some of the lyrics have...
HOPE PARTLOW
Life is not about where you come from but it is about where you are going.
JESSICA A. SANCHEZ
I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
GARY CHERONE
I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where th...
ALEX TURNER
We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the...
DAVID WONG
When we started seeing some of the vile and filthy lyrics ... we thought we should get involved, ......
ADRIAN RODGERS
We've met twice and kind of got some ideas on players, staff and training camp. We're just going thr...
LARRY PLEAU
Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER
If we pass a resolution, we need to say where the money is going to come from.
JASON HARPER
I'm so proud of Richie and so excited to talk about where he's been and where he is. And I mean he's...
JON BON JOVI
We knew their pressure was going to be awesome. We just had some spurts where we just didn't handle ...
ALLAN POPE
We had some good looks ... and nothing dropped.
CHAD ALLAN
We dropped some games earlier in the season where if our defense had been better, we would have had ...
DAN GRUNFELD
I dropped our very first pass, but the first touchdown was a perfect pass from Aaron. The defender h...
CHRIS ABEL
We try to put humorous stuff in there. We try to reflect our personalities in the music and lyrics, ...
EVAN SAMMONS
The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're ve...
DAVID MORRISSEY
We can't choose where we come from,but we can choose where we go from there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It's kind of a comeback. We had to come from second in the dual meet standings, but we had a very go...
DAVE MEYER
I really don't know the difference between Brooklyn and the Meadowlands, to be honest. I think we wo...
BYRON SCOTT
Honestly, do we ask Jean Charest where he bought his pot from? If the person who sold him pot had li...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR
We just didn't capitalize on some things. We got some key stops, we got some rebounds, and then we'd...
JAMELLE CORNLEY
We don't know what we are going to do with this. It's really random with all the ways that we're thi...
DUSTIN KENSRUE
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
think about where we came from ... and move on and move forward.
BRUCE LAKEFIELD
Students can do just about anything; they can treat it sort of like a giant living room. We frowned ...
JOYCE OGBURN
I'm just very sad about this continuing story, and I'll need to work that much harder, so we can bri...
BERN EWERT
Any time you have items budgeted on funds that are there for only one year, but you know next year y...
GREGORY GEOFFROY
This is where Danny and I could come. We could come for refuge away from the stress of what was goin...
AMY WILLIAMS
We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out an...
KAREN AIROLA
We're following up leads at this time. All we know is they took some watches because we found some o...
BRENDA BALK
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I am not worried about our hitting. We're going to be fine. We've got some guys that swing the bat u...
JEFF BLAUSER
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
We've just come off a very big quarter and so we have to digest some of those gains.
JIM AWAD
We didn't shoot the ball very well, to be honest. The effort was there. The first half we played wel...
ADAM HOUDESHELL
I'm very pleased with the effort. We've been having some good practices. It's a very hard working gr...
MAC MISTRIC
Bridgeport came to play and we thought we were just going to walk out on the floor and win. We just ...
ED ANDES
It's not going to be town hall meetings where we try to get them to come us. We're going to go to th...
JENNIFER STECK
We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know...
LYLE THOMAS
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and h...
ADAM RICH
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I...
JOHN PRINE
They're way different -- the songs are way more soulful. They open up Patrick's voice a lot more. On...
PETE WENTZ
There are some weekends where you can just cruise. We are going to run into some times though, where...
BUCK KICINSKI
All of us are very, very worried about the very near future ... We are going into a period where we ...
TONY HALL
Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I ...
ADAM CARROLL
To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/fi...
DEYTH BANGER
We didn't play very well at the Christmas tournament. And we had to make some changes at half becaus...
JOE SHOEMAKER
It's more open. Last year, we were just bland. Wherever we lined up at, that's where we were going f...
ANQUAN BOLDIN
Victor got hurt, and Billy was in foul trouble so we had a few starters out. I thought we just didn'...
LARRY HOGAN
We have a lot of things going on, and some of them are probably going to come to fruition in 2006.
DWIGHT TANKERSLEY
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses a...
DAVE HAYWOOD
It's flattering, but you start to wonder whether people that are becoming fans of all the bands that...
DAN ANDRIANO
We're not where we want to be on just about everything.
CARLTON HAYWOOD
We have really come a long way from where we were to where we are now. We've gotten to where we can ...
CODY VANDERFORD
There are more important things in life than football, ... They are going through something where th...
LOUISIANA TECH
Sometimes we just can't get over the hump. Like I said, we're just going to come out to practice and...
DUSTIN SALISBERY
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come fro...
JAN VAN RUYSBROECK
But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go fr...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY
We saw that he was frustrated with himself a little bit. As older guys, we have to stay on him, make...
CARL EVERETT
Do you ever get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anyone anymore? You just want to be lef...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB
We put some new things in, just to give them new looks. We had some plays where, as soon as we calle...
DREW SHUBIK
The most important thing about camp and the preseason will be getting some chemistry going with the ...
BRENDAN HAYWOOD
We are worried about comments from some on the committee.
ADNAN MUFTI
We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imagin...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Overall, I'm very excited. We have some young freshmen playing and today gives us a good base of whe...
KRYSTAL KENNARD
We know all we can worry about is the first game and go from there. But with some of the teams that ...
JUAN RUEDA
The kids battled. We had two kids shoot 40 on the front side and another shoot 41, and they all shot...
GRIER JONES
I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL
I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER
To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS...
In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS...
When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M
The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART
اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART
You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART
There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART
There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART
Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART
We just wanna worry about winning this last game and going into the playoffs with some momentum.
STEPHEN JACKSON
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
To be honest, I never even saw him. I didn't know where he came from. I just know we got together an...
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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