Public Quotes
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The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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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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There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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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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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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On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.
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Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
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Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
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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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If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
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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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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.
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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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Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.
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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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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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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
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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.