Public Quotes
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell
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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...
Oscar Wilde
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
T. J. Miller
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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.
Merrick Garland
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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.
Jack Dangermond
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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.
Boris Karloff
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
Anne Carson
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
Barton Gellman
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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.
Ian Mckellen
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
Larry Hogan
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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.
Garry Trudeau
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
Anthony Robbins
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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.]
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Alyssa Milano
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Now that this issue is being made public, you are suffering the same pain all over again.
Anne Edwards
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
Lance Morrow
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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.
Jenny Zhang
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I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
Olga Korbut