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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• Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office.

  

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• There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

  

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• It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.

  

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• I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

  

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• My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

  

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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?

  

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