Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Mencia

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Carlos Mencia

I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Carl Bernstein

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

Carl Andre

New York is dead. It's too expensive.

Carl Andre

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Agnes Smedley

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

Aaron Yoo

When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

Aaron Tveit

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Aasif Mandvi

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Carlos Mencia

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers

Don Cheadle

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

Cher Lloyd

I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

Chance The Rapper

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

Chance The Rapper

Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

ASAP Rocky

I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

Alan Vega

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Chelsea Handler

You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.

Bobby Moynihan

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

Jamie Redknapp

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

Charlize Theron

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charles M. Blow

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Cybill Shepherd

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Anthony Horowitz

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

Kim Gordon

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

Jennifer Saunders

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Paul Weller

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.