Beats Quote by Chris Rock Download Open image “Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.” — Chris Rock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beats Satire
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon. — George Smathers Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Presidents, even when they get some things right, never cease to be punch lines, and it was telling that Nixon regarded his comic potential… — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon. — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they do what… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
