Public Quotes
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.
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It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
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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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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
