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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Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
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I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.
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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
