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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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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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 think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
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The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
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I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.
Charles B. Rangel
