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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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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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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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.
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No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
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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.
