Richard M. Nixon Quotes

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

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• In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

  

  Carla Hall
  • You
  • Wishes
  • Changing

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

  

  Mark Twain
  • American

• When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• When all else fails...be a rockstar

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Fails
  • Rock Star

• Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Sweet

• But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Taken
  • Picture
  • Drag

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Want

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friends

• People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and "Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now," and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Kids
  • Future

• You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Students
  • Principles

• One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Support
  • Paper
  • Recycling

• Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Defend
  • Attacking

• The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

  

  D. Michael Quinn
  • World
  • Important
  • Science

• We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

  

  Geno Auriemma
  • Heard
  • Shots
  • Deceit

• Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • War
  • Knowledge
  • Responsibility

• AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Revenge
  • Forest

• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Real
  • Sin
  • Forgiveness

• I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
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