Richard M. Nixon Quotes

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Richard M. Nixon

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Game
  • Turn

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Always
  • Emotions
  • Weather

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I enjoy seeing new places.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • Seeing

• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Political

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Media

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Work
  • Together
  • Understanding

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • History
  • Look
  • Club

• We were trying to get a sound on an instrument and I said it should sound robotic and he said, ‘You mean humanesque?’ I thought it was a good word and used it for the title.

  

  Jack Green T. Rex
  • Sound
  • Instrument
  • Title

• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Today
  • Mean
  • Fantasy

• In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Soviets
  • Trouble
  • Structure

• I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.

  

  Sung Kang
  • Help
  • Happen
  • Project

• Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Sound
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism