Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.Charles B. Rangel
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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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?
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I guess music is very global.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
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The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.
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Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.
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But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.
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Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.
Charles B. Rangel
