Public Quotes
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.
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Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.
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A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.
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The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
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The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the long run, inflation will remain low.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
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The public always picks quality.
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I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
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There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
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They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
