Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
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Common sense is strengthened by joy.
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Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.
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There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.
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If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.
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I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.
Charles B. Rangel
