Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
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Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?
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If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.
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Won’t you help the government in saving Gujarat? Won’t you help us in maintaining peace and harmony? The Government of Gujarat appeals to you for help, appeals to you for shanti (peace) and sanyam (restraint or self-discipline).
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.
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The United States Cyber Command was created partly in response to a Russian hacking attack that long predated the 2016 election.
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
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The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
Charles B. Rangel
