Cheech Marin Quotes
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.

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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
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People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
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I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.
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Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.