Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.Charles B. Rangel
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
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I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.
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When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.
Charles B. Rangel
