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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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.
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If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a mess. Still be dead, though.
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In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel
