Charlamagne Tha God (Lenard Larry McKelvey) Quotes
Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people. I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't going to talk to people the way that they did. My mindset is, if you want to see the true character of a person watch how they treat those who can't do anything for them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
-
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-
I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
-
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
-
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
-
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
-
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
-
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
-
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
-
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
-
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
-
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
-
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
-
I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
-
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-
Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
-
Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
-
A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.
-
I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
-
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
-
Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
-
Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people. I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't going to talk to people the way that they did. My mindset is, if you want to see the true character of a person watch how they treat those who can't do anything for them.
