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
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On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
Norman Quentin Cook
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I think we very well may take it public again in 2007. We're going to make sure we explore every nook and cranny of America's economic landscape.
John Holt
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The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
Wendy McElroy
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde
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It takes a great deal of courage to give me a public shout out, that's for sure.
Mike Cernovich
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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
Plutarch
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
Sigmund Freud
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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
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Public health is being sacrificed to keep us on the road.
John Whiting
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It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
Allen St. Pierre
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The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
Johnny Hallyday
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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
Liberace
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The public never is independently responsive to news.
Edwin Lefevre
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In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
Kanan Makiya
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
John Cotton Dana
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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
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We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.
Sean Maguire
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Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Frank Rizzo
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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.
Theresa May