Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.Charles B. Rangel
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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Down South, I never had to audition. They would call me up and give me a role.
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A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?
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I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.
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From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls
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I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
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I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.
Charles B. Rangel
