Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• 'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Business
  • Always

• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friend
  • Radio
  • Plays

• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Training
  • Conditions
  • Racing

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Land

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Reality
  • Moment
  • Commitment

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Different
  • Think
  • Always

• I'm a registered Democrat.

  

  Mark Zandi

• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • People
  • She

• Over the last thirty years or so, I have definitely become more enlightened about corners of the social spectrum that I had less exposure to as a young man. I've interacted with more poor people, more minorities and more sexual minorities. As you get more people from different backgrounds involved in your life, you get a broader perspective and you're less cavalier about your opinions.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • People
  • Why
  • Environment