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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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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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
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In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.
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It is not the manager's job to prevent risks. It is the manager's job to make it safe to take them.
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I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
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I remember the first show I had there were about 3 people, at least there was somebody. The next one was about 30. Then a couple years later there were 300 people and before I knew it there were 3,000... Then one day, I opened my eyes and there were 300,000 singing all my lyrics.
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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
