Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
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I always played to win.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Leo never was much of a hitter. I tried to help him once. I suggested that he become a switch-hitter and that if he did, his average would jump up to .400. 'Two hundred right-handed and two hundred left,' I said.
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Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.
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My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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Threats mean nothing to me.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
