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.
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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.
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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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You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.
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Honestly, so much of that EDM stuff is just so disposable.
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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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?
