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"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper."

"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."

"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."

"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."

"It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives."
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"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided."

"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."

"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."

"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work."

"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

"The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now."
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