Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I've never met anybody in this world like me.
