Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
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It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
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On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.
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Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
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No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.
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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
Charles B. Rangel
