Public Quotes
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Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
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The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
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When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.
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If I am successful, I see this as the last chapter in my public service to Oregon.
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I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
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I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
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Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.
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They've just gone berserk. It's in the public interest to know where these large amounts of money are coming from.
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I believe my office's efforts to educate the public are having a positive effect. We are seeing a larger percentage of charitable donations raised going to support charitable programs.
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It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.
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Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.
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I guess it raises questions of what they will discuss if they do exclude the public.
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
