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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Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.
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It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.
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I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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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
