Public Quotes
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It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
Hector Berlioz -
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.
Hannah Arendt -
I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
Patsy Cline -
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali -
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.
Geoffrey Cowan
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
Albert Einstein -
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
Johnny Hallyday -
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.
Elizabeth May -
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
Sara Coleridge -
When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
Cornelius Vanderbilt -
I believe my office's efforts to educate the public are having a positive effect. We are seeing a larger percentage of charitable donations raised going to support charitable programs.
Eliot Spitzer -
I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.
Berton Braley -
Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.
Hannah Arendt -
In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
Kanan Makiya -
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
John Maynard Keynes