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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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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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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There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.
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The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
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Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of 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
