Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.Charles B. Rangel
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
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We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles B. Rangel
