Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
