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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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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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
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People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action programs. But almost no one seriously argues about the basic meaning or legitimacy of core civil-rights protections.
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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?
