Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
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I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me.
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
