Cheech Marin Quotes

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Guy
  • Team
  • First

• We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

  

  J Allard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Service

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Great
  • Country
  • Friends

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Team
  • Community
  • Restaurant

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Agree
  • Compromise
  • Necessity

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Home
  • History

• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Guy

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Films
  • Managing

• Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Week
  • Benefit
  • U.S.

• I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Team
  • Teach
  • Where

• I've always given everything for every team I've played for so that the ordinary fans, the people in the stadium, could identify with me. I owe a lot to the fans of Roma, Fiorentina and Argentina. They were the reason I played, my inspiration. I always worked hard to improve my game, to prove to myself that I could be one of the best for as long as possible. To be honest, I couldn’t care less what the others think.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Game
  • Team
  • Fans

• In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Great
  • Country
  • Done

• I celebrate Hanukkah. Anything with gifts is good.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Hanukkah

• I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

  

  Cheech Marin
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