Charles B. Rangel Quotes

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

Charles B. Rangel

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LifeI AmNew YorkCityFreeBetter

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Michael Graves

GoodMeSmallDesignSomeoneGoal

Croatia is an amazing place.

Jean Reno

AmazingPlaceCroatia

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Simon Schama

UglyEndAmericanPlaceEurope

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

Shuji Nakamura

WorkMoneyYouBadSayImage

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Juan Goytisolo

LanguageInnocenceInnocentNever

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

Joss Whedon

TimePeopleWritingStoryThink

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

Josh McDowell

MatterTemporaryStrugglesOnlyOur

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Dominique Wilkins

ToolUsedIntimidationSlam

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

KnowDifferenceSubstancePreserve

Creativity saved me.

Chris Gethard

CreativityMeSaved

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

Chris Sacca

FriendTimeMoneyCareerGrowing

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Arthur D. Levinson

IntelligenceHobbyPhysicsPerson

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