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"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
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"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper."

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"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."
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"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
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