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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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 want to dress well. I want to look good.
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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I saw him - and Wilt was not a man, as huge as he was - he was not a man of confrontation. And we were in the Lakers locker room. And he sent Jerry West over, and he said, 'Frank, Wilt would like you to leave.'
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My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
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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
