Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
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Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
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The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
