Public Quotes
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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
Mark Twain -
We are showing how determined we are to crack down on the distress nuisance calls cause the public.
Alan Johnson
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
Ralph Regula -
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
E. M. Forster -
I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe -
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.
R. C. Sproul -
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.
Katharine Hepburn -
The public always picks quality.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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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.
John Ruskin -
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.
Jean Chretien -
If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.
Paul McGann -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
Alice Rivlin -
Dorothy had already done the centerfold, Miss August. She had already done parts in "Fantasy Island" and "Buck Rogers". Things were moving fast for her. I became very fond of her. She was handling her public visibility very well. She was maturing very fast for 19. But, to me, she was just a friend. Understand? Just a friend.
David Clennon
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
William R. Alger -
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.
Francis Bacon -
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
Oswald Chambers -
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Socrates -
If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
Linda Ronstadt -
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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Albert Shanker -
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Alfred Jarry -
How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe