Vanilla Ice quotes

Vanilla Ice is an American musician, rapper, and TV personality who became famous in the early 1990s. His hit single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop song to top the Billboard charts. He has since pursued a career in reality television, acting, and home renovation. Here are 53 of his quotes:

I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

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I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

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I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

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Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.

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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

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Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

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This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.

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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

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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.

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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

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I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

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I've never met anybody in this world like me.

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With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

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