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 think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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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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I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it's creepy. It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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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.
