Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes

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• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Wish
  • Ever
  • Else

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• Advertising is the life of trade.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Trade
  • Advertising

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• 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.

  

  Harry Browne
  • America
  • Hate
  • Bullying

• 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 guess music is very global.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Very
  • Global

• There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Want
  • You
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Xenophon
  • True
  • Moments
  • Leader

• What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Beautiful
  • Counts
  • Pal

• The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

  

  Hal David
  • Art
  • Always
  • Talent

• 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.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Money
  • True

• I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Why
  • Fear

• Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Never
  • Four

• Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Losing

• Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.

  

  Wale
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Making

• I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Death

• Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • World
  • Education
  • Powerful

• Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Strategy
  • Consistent
  • Tricky

• Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

  Charles B. Rangel