Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.Charles B. Rangel
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm really blessed. I love my job. Love going to work. I just love it. I love getting it, I love preparing for it. I love the whole process. I love the whole ritual. I'm really very lucky. Lucky girl.
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Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.
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I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.
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It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
Charles B. Rangel
