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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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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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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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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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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One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
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I saw him show up a few times, I'll say that. He has a way of doing that.
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I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.
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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
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I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are.
Charles B. Rangel
