Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.
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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
