Public Quotes
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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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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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It takes a great deal of courage to give me a public shout out, that's for sure.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.
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I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.
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I feel like an outsider sometimes. Sometimes being more public makes me feel uncomfortable. I'll have people asking me for autographs in Thailand and I'll ask if they've seen my films and they'll say, "No, but I know who you are and I like the way you look - I like the skinhead look."
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If I am successful, I see this as the last chapter in my public service to Oregon.
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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.
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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.
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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.
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I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.
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In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
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There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
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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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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
