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.Carlos Mencia
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Never explain, never complain.
Wallis Simpson -
I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
Rachel Sklar -
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
Sal Albanese -
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.
Sally Ride -
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.
Flume -
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.
Benicio Del Toro
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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.
Alexander Wang -
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
Jennifer Weiner -
I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!
Liz Goldwyn -
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.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode -
On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
David Dobkin -
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.
Kevin McCarthy
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Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü -
I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
Bernard Hopkins -
Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.
Joe Montana -
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.
Cynthia Weil -
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.
David Hepworth
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For all of us, the collective bargaining agreement is a big deal. We've seen everything in this league - strikes, free agency and salary caps. For some teams in the league, it's going to be tougher. We'll be one of the teams that it will be tough on.
Joe Gibbs -
I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
Dana Schutz -
I knew rice and gravy would be a hit. Who grew up here and never ate rice and gravy? I'm glad no one ever thought about it before.
Bob Moore -
I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
Gavin Newsom -
If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
Seth Godin -
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.
Carlos Mencia