Public Quotes
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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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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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The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
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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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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.
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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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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
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I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
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Regis has a great rapport with the American public.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.
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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
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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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It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
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Why was the public so forgiving? Partly because everybody was still in love with the legacy of Steve Jobs, who was never the world’s most diplomatic guy (in fact, he may have invented Cheat 5 about pissing people off) but was somebody who never got accused of not giving a shit. People knew he lived and breathed his products, and in a world of depersonalized, manipulative commerce, that was exactly what it took to build brand loyalty, and in turn create the most golden of opportunities: the second chance. When you get a do-over on your screw-ups, you can almost always find the fix.
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
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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.
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The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.
