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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I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.
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I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.
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On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
Charles B. Rangel
