Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) Quotes
I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
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My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
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Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.
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I grew up in Finance.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
