Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Present
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Nobody
  • Jack

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Thought
  • Years
  • System

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Government
  • Mission
  • Plans

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Women
  • American
  • Politics

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

  

  Colin Angle

• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Society

• I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.

  

  Flume
  • Home
  • Water
  • Regret

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

  

  David Mamet
  • Great
  • Guy

• This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country