Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

Carlos Mencia

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• A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Father
  • Like
  • Baby

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Father
  • Me
  • Best

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think both of my parents are unique in the way they don't live their lives as celebrities. They're both artists, first and foremost. My mom lives a very private life. So does my father. You don't really see them in the tabloids or anything like that. I think that's definitely a decision you can make.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Live
  • Father

• I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • School
  • Movie
  • Father

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Father
  • Calm

• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Father
  • Today
  • Gangsta

• My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Life
  • Father
  • Path

• I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • Life
  • War
  • Father

• When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

  

  Douglass North
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Father
  • Sales

• My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Father
  • Always
  • Place

• Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • You
  • Know
  • Cool

• I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Religious

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• Acting was my first love before music.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Music

• Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Father
  • Born