Cheech Marin Quotes
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.
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Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
