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Public Quotes
"If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai."
75
"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."
43
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
20
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
18
"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."
16
"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."
16
"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."
15
"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."
14
"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
13
"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."
13
"The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."
12
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
12
"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."
11
"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
11
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
10
"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue."
10
"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
10
"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."
10
"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
10
"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
10
"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."
10
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
10
"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
10
"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."
9
"There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public."
9
"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."
9
"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."
9
"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
9
"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."
9
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
9
"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."
9
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