Newton N. Minow Quotes
What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.
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I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.
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Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
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I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.
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What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
