Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.Charles B. Rangel
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The world needs some help.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
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I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
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In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
