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Public Quotes



"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."


"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me."


"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."



"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."



"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."


"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."


"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."


"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."


"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"


"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."


"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."


"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."


"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."



"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."


"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."


"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."


"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."


"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."


"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year."


"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."


"Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."


"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."


"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."


"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."


"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."


"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."



"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that."



"It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation."


"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."


"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."


"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."


"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."


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



"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."



"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."
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