Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Golf is not easy.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I don't envy young actors.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
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In my case, of course, people had a lot of expectations, but that didn't pressurise me because I'm pretty confident about my musicality and my talent.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.
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We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.
Charles B. Rangel
