Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.Charles B. Rangel
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
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A lot of people don't want to grow up because it sucks.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.
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I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.
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So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
Charles B. Rangel
