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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I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'
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Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
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A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.
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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
