Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
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Never explain, never complain.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women – those men were all very used to working with women.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
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I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
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L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
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I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
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The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
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She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
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Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.
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I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.
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I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.
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If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
