If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Quote by Richard M. Nixon
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
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Richard M. Nixon Quotes
- We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
- By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
- You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
- The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
- I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
- Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
- People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
- We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
- Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
- I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
- I say, thou mad March hare.
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.