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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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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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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We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
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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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When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.
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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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The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
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I think 'One Woman Army' sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?
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I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.
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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
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Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
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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.
