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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I have a very small public.
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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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...if you're going to waste an opportunity, there are a few important things to remember. Do it in style. Do it in public. And, above all, do it in Manchester.
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In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.
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I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
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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.
