Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.Charles B. Rangel
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
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Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!
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I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
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My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
Charles B. Rangel
