Cheech Marin Quotes

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Food
  • Step
  • Welcome

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Gift

• I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Taken
  • Effort
  • Messy

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nice
  • Cost

• World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • World
  • Children
  • Small

• Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Action

• I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Long
  • Passion

• I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.

  

  Cheech Marin
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