Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• 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?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• 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.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• 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.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Start

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Expect

• 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.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Wonderful
  • Fake
  • Given

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• 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.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Understand

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Sword

• I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Life
  • Spiritual

• The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Good
  • Music

• Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Good
  • May
  • Day

• This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• 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
  • Good
  • Believe
  • America