Cheech Marin Quotes
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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People trash talk me.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.
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As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
