Vanilla Quotes - Page 3

• Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

  Thomas Sadoski

  Games, Tv Shows, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  Nadia Bjorlin

  Sweet, Growing Up, Parent

  "Exclusive: Nadia Bjorlin Returns to Days of Our Lives". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

  Elise Valmorbida

  Sex, Passion, Suffering

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• All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me "Vanilla" - like "Hey, Vanilla" and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.

  Vanilla Ice

  Kids, Hard Work, Years

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate: one group of scientists found a 90% decline of big fish and criticized fishery management. Some other scientists found an 80% decline and started a big argument with the 90% people. Who cares if it's 80% or 90%? The real question is whether it's OK to let fishermen take most of the big fish out of our oceans.

  Mark Powell

  Real, Ocean, Ice Cream

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• "Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold."

  Vanilla Ice

  Rap, Ice, People

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.

  Andy Biersack

  Hate, People, Pudding

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• Your average chocolate bar now is full of genetically modified sugar, genetically modified soy bean lecithin, and dairy products (super allergenic for kids); not to mention the 'fake vanilla' - known as chemical vanillin, synthetic flavoring.

  David Wolfe

  Kids, Average, Fake

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• You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sweet, Cake, Long

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of much larger set of behaviors: expressions of love, and self, and play, and even art. There is no hard line between "vanilla" sex and S&M sex, or any other kind of relation between people.

  Melissa Febos

  Art, Sex, Self

  Interview with Rebecca Keith, therumpus.net. April 2, 2010.

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• I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

  Emma Caulfield

  Girl, Play, Lucky

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• You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

  John Shelton Reed

  Thinking, Self, Ethnicity

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Rights, Issues

  "Full Frontal Feminism" by Jessica Valenti, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2007.

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• I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Passion, Flames

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 - two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

  Ally Carter

  Ice Cream, Two, Numbers

  "I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

  Deb Caletti

  Guitar, Eggs, Oil

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Years, Choices

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• I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

  Eli Roth

  Dvds

  "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber … is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.

  Kid Rock

  Ice, Wells, Justin

  "Kid Rock slams Justin Bieber, compares him to Vanilla Ice: 'It's gonna be a very long ride down'" by Margaret Eby, www.nydailynews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  Rachael Ray

  Husband, Air, Feelings

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• If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

  Phil McGraw

  Air, Two, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

  Nadia Giosia

  Dark, America, Cooking

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• If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

  Ron Fournier

  Three, Bulls, Red

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