Public Quotes
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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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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.
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When it comes to special use of forts and military bases and public parks, where they're getting terms nobody else gets, that has to stop.
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Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.
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The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.
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If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact.
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Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
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Public office is a public trust.
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Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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The party's got to see itself as being one public service organization in a very competitive field, all of whom are competing for the allegiance and commitment and brains of the next generation. They've got to be big enough to reach out to those groups and say "come on in."
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The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.
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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.
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I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.
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I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
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Under the wake of all of night we went again. We wedded the public with the private; tunneled through the holes in the houses the darkness graced as welcome mats made of the dirt of the buried, gifting access into each home, and enough desire to slip into each denatured, dragging the future. Into each I went, too, split in my dimension to replicate across the universe of homes.
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We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
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Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
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The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
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The American public is a very specialized public.
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My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
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We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
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I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.
