Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
