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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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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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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
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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.
