Cheech Marin Quotes
Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
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I quite like L.A.
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I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.
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This country is built on free speech.
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Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.
