Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.Charles B. Rangel
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Being evil is easy.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
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If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.
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I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
Charles B. Rangel
