Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.Charles B. Rangel
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
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I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.
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...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Charles B. Rangel
