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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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 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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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
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I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
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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.
