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.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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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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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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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.
