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

• 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

• Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Why
  • Gym

• I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Important
  • Family
  • Career

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• It's a dream come true for me to be an idol for those kids. One little moment from my life that I spend with that kid, he might remember that for the rest of his life, that he met me that day when he was 10 years old.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Remember

• As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Goodbye

• Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.

  

  Alan McGlashan
  • World
  • Children
  • Artists

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

  Charles B. Rangel