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" At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense. "
End Of The Day
Financial
Day
" Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it. "
Truck
Experience
Credit
" Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken by my relatives all my life, especially when they didn't want me to understand what they were talking about. "
Understand
My Life
Talking
" Hey, I was raised in the church. "
Church
Raised
I Was Raised
" Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me. "
Church
Boy
Sense
" I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. "
Work
Heroes
Love
" I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually. "
Out
Afraid
Karma
" I love voice work. "
I Love
Voice
Love
" In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown. "
Great
Performance
Black
" I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish. "
California
Los Angeles
Feel
" I've never seen a NASCAR race; I've seen an Indianapolis 500 race. "
NASCAR
Never
Race
" I was an altar boy and a choir member. "
Boy
Member
Choir
" I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. "
Movement
Resistance
Cards
" 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. "
Canada
Trouble
Said
" Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports. "
Loyalty
Communication
Always
" My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon - cost 100 bucks. "
First
Station
Cost
" My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork. "
Started
Glass
Fine
" My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again. "
Marriage
Kind
Back
" Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won! "
Note
Battle
Comedy
" The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. "
Dangerous
Because
Reason
" The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States. "
Living
Word
United States
" We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace. "
Embrace
Proud
Credit
" We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return! "
Now
Satan
Master
" Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. "
Need
Gain
You
" Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests. "
Guy
Yeah
Priests
" You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews. "
Movie
You
Catholic
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