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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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.
Charles B. Rangel
