Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes

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• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Snow
  • Canada

• 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.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• 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.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Peace
  • Sea
  • River

• 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.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Know
  • Learn
  • Mystery

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Does

• I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

  

  Leland Stanford

• I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Secret
  • Young

• I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

  

  John Waters
  • Movie
  • Independent

• When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Apples
  • Equals
  • Alibis

• What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.

  

  Morgan Fairchild
  • Effects
  • Symptoms
  • Migraine

• 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
  • Help
  • Education