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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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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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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Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
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Talk radio can't work unless you have the kind of independence you get by being part of an independent news network. You can't be beholden to an agenda, and that's what I like about Fox: It doesn't have one.
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I've grown up being obsessed by 'Harry Potter.'
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
Charles B. Rangel
