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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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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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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At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
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I don't pay attention to celebrities. I don't photograph them. They don't dress so... interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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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
