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Public Quotes
"If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai."
41
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
33
"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."
14
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
12
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
12
"Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public."
8
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
8
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
7
"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."
7
"And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was."
7
"I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do."
7
"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
7
"If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies."
7
"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."
7
"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."
7
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
6
"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."
6
"I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing."
6
"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
6
"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
6
"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."
6
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
6
"Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before."
6
"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
6
"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
6
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
5
"NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings."
5
"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."
5
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
5
"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."
5
"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."
5
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
5
"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."
5
"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
5
"That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public."
5
"Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."
5
"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
5
"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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