Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.
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Sometimes people are looking for, 'What's the next Tesla car? What's this really cool, super-specific thing that people are going to want?' But I try to be just like a Ford truck. They sell a lot more Ford trucks than they do Tesla cars.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
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Mr. Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War-but the vast mass of the nation loves him, is frantically fond of him, even idolizes him. This is the simple truth. It sounds like a libel upon the intelligence of the human race, but it isn't; there isn't any way to libel the intelligence of the human race.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
