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Charles B. Rangel Quotes

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

Charles B. Rangel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 11, 1930

Topics

You Back Too Much Cut Your Raise

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

Best People Generation You House

Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

Hope Me Story American Find Want

I want to be able to leave behind an infrastructure and a road map for any of my dreamers to follow. So that they can again take care of their family, pursue what they love and live a fulfilling life. Everyone is called, but not everyone answers. I was called, and I answered.

Life Family Love Live Road Care

There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.

Mickalene Thomas

Great Art Creative People Me Desire

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Education Future Community Will

If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.

Life Best Football Brother My Life

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Medical Abuse Disease Professionals

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

Christopher Walken

Words Me Saying Think You Acting

I was 17 or 18 when 'The Twist' came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

History Dance Rest Regret Acting Up

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mother Son Caring Book Comedy Dying

Compounding Iraq's problem is that its economy is highly dependent on oil.

Problem Oil Economy Dependent Iraq

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

Life Meaning Find Africa Race Could

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