Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
 
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	I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.   
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	I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.   
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	I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.   
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	The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.   
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	At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.   
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	All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.   
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	Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.   
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	As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'   
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	The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.   
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	Happiness is good health and a bad memory.   
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	Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.   
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	I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.   
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	Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.   
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	My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.   
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	The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.   
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	No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.   
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	If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.   
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	I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.   
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	I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.   
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	Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.   
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	I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.   
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	I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.   
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	I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: 'That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going....'   
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	I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					