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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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I didn't really like the '80s, to be honest with you. There was some good music that came out, but it went a bit disco for me.
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
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Experience is never at bargain price.
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I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
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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.
