Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
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Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.
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Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
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Because of my interest in songwriting, I was invited to visit a friend in L.A. for songwriting sessions with him and his friends. We wrote six songs by the end of the weekend, and 'Hide Away' happened to be one of them!
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
