Cheech Marin Quotes
To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
Quotes to Explore
-
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
-
My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
-
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
-
I never thought I'd be an actor.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
-
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
-
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
-
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
-
I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
-
I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
-
A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
-
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
-
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
-
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
-
The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
-
Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
-
I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
-
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
-
Women are always beautiful.
-
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none.
-
I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
-
To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.
