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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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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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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The choice is ours, in every moment.
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We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.
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Everybody is overlooking me. I just want to show the world that, hey, he is in there with a live dog. He is not in there with a little puppy. He is in there with a live dog. I am going to show the world that he belongs with the best; he wants to fight the best. This is the guy that has heart and balls that gives everything in the ring, that's what he wants.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
Charles B. Rangel
