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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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Personal Development

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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Personal Development

"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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Personal Development

"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."
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Personal Development

"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."
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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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Personal Development

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
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"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
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"You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting."
Competition

"When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now."
Time

"Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me."
Art

"I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight."
Career

"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
Public

"One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself."
Acting

"If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later."
Job

"In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase."
Life

"I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days."
Family

"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
People
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