Carlos Mencia (Ned Arnel Mencia) Quotes

I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

Carlos Mencia

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Body

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Wise

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Different
  • Film

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Love
  • Why
  • Book

• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Ideas
  • Reflection
  • Class

• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ego

• London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • City
  • London

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Question

• She cut her eyes to the woods and whispered, "We're not alone, remember?" "I don't care who hears it. I love you!" His voice rose louder this time. She frowned. "Nothing's changed." "Everything has changed," he said.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.

  

  Denis Donoghue
  • Enough
  • Understand
  • Process

• The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Imperatives

• Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Chance
  • Easy

• I don't need anybody, I'm successful in life enough to buy myself a f'ing sandwich.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Enough
  • Needs
  • Successful