Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.
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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
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I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
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I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
