Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

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• I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

  

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• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

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• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

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• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

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• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

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• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

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• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

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• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

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• As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

  

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• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

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• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

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• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

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• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

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• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

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• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

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• Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

  

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• I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

  

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• I just hated being around attention and stuff. In the clubhouse, I hated being around that. I didn't like anything to do with being around people, for the most part. I mean, I could be around them, just not in a talking situation, and that would make it even worse.

  

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• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

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• I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

  

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• When I called upon Dr. Johnson next morning, I found him highly satisfied with his colloquial prowess the preceding evening. 'Well, (said he,) we had good talk.' BOSWELL: 'Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.'

  

  James Boswell
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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  

  Vanilla Ice
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