Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I will keep working hard!
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
