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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I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.
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My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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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
