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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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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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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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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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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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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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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I hate my own attorneys!
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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
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Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
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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.
