"If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on."

-- Charles Rangel

#Nice Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.”
“Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.”
“John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.”
“Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.199, Penguin
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?”

Source : "The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 15, 2011.
“I'm not an austere person.”
“What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.”
“Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.”

Source : "Dream the possible dream" Sheryl Sandberg, bluesky.chicagotribune.com. May 3, 2014.

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