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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The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I know exactly what I have photographed in his series 'Equivalents', 1925 - 1934. I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the dead representations of the so-called abstract so fashionable now.
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In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.
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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?
