Public Quotes

• The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

  

  Paul Reubens
  • Want
  • Know
  • Public

• A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Mirror
  • Public
  • Newspaper

• None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

  

  Keith Johnstone
  • Growing
  • Public
  • Behave

• How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Church
  • Secrets
  • Possession

• A star remains pinned on a wall in the public imagination.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Imagination
  • Star
  • Wall

• Acting is like any other profession. I do not think stars need to have any hang-ups in public. I do not like to be treated like someone special - and this I say because I am normal and not because I want to sound humble.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Public
  • Profession
  • Treated

• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Thinking
  • Response
  • Projects

• Defense Distributed is being penalized for trying to educate the public about 3-D guns.

  

  Alan Gottlieb
  • Public
  • Guns
  • Educate

• Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

  

  William Jones
  • Service
  • Helping
  • Worthwhile

• You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

  

  Jonathan Powell
  • Public
  • Negotiate
  • Concessions

• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  

  Stephen Harper
  • Opinion
  • Stand
  • Based

• The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Woman
  • Public
  • Mumble

• The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

  

  Theresa May
  • Public
  • Politicians
  • Gimmicks

• What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Devotion
  • Self-Interest
  • Members of Congress

• If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Public

• The public is always right.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Public

• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Force
  • Radio
  • Standup

• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Relationship
  • Gender
  • Investigation

• The moment you start asking questions, you become public enemy number one.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Moment
  • Questions
  • Number

• I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Hope
  • Write
  • Public

• Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Truth
  • Meetings
  • Number

• This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Moment
  • Conversation

• I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Public
  • Private

• I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Public
  • Happen
  • Interested

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