Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all.
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God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).
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Math prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
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All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
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I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.
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There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
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Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.
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It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.
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If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine.
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We don't windsurf in Harlem.
Charles B. Rangel
