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"Public radio has always been so powerless."
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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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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"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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"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."
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"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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"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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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
Ignorance
"I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again."
Home
"But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before."
Being
"Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that."
Friendship
"Public radio has always been so powerless."
Public
"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."
Work
"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."
Judgment
"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
Conservative
"If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes."
People
"Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep."
Reading
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