Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.Charles B. Rangel
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
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Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
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Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
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I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.
Charles B. Rangel
