Public Quotes
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.
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Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid.
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Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.
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I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.
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All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.
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America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.
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Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
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If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
