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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There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
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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
