Charles B. Rangel Quotes

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

Charles B. Rangel

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Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

Robert Reich

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Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.

Amy Purdy

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When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Siri Hustvedt

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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.

Tom Chatfield

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I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

Rithy Panh

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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Milan Kundera

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I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

Joseph Fiennes

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The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Chris Messina

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I didn't start acting until after undergrad!

Conrad Ricamora

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I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

Claudia Christian

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The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

Bruce Boxleitner

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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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