Cheech Marin Quotes

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

Cheech Marin

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• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Living

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Internet
  • Tweet
  • Developments

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Father
  • India

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • America

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Know
  • Always
  • Name

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Impression

• You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • You
  • Gone

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

  

  Philip Reeve
  • Experience

• At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.

  

  Anne McCaffrey
  • Book
  • Help
  • Age

• We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Future

• Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • English

• So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Taken