Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.Charles B. Rangel
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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Everything I say is true.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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The news of Mubarak stepping down came as I was sitting in my Jordanian home away from home.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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We are not asking for a penny piece of Community money for Britain. What we are asking is for a very large amount of our own money back, over and above what we contribute to the Community, which is covered by our receipts from the Community.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.
Charles B. Rangel
