Public Quotes
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God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
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The American public no longer has confidence in Wall Street and we've got to change that.
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What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
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I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
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I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.
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When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
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Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
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I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
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The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.
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The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
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The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
