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"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."
Victoria Principal
"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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"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me."
Charles Schumer
"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me."
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"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."
Errol Flynn
"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."
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"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
Tony Benn
"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
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"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
Rosamund Pike
"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
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"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."
Stephen Breyer
"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."
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"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."
Herman Kahn
"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."
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"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
Julie Walters
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
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"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
Gro Harlem Brundtland
"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
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"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
Adolph Zukor
"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"
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"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
George Bancroft
"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
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"I have come East to find what the public likes."
Sessue Hayakawa
"I have come East to find what the public likes."
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"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
Al Capp
"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
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"A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances."
Mickey Gilley
"A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances."
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"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."
Joseph C. Lincoln
"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."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
Mary Antin
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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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."
Mario Monti
"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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"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
Jonathan Kozol
"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
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"The public has become my fairy godmother."
Eartha Kitt
"The public has become my fairy godmother."
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"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."
Maria Monk
"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."
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"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."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"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."
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"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
Hedy Lamarr
"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
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"The public is never wrong."
Adolph Zukor
"The public is never wrong."
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"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."
Cliff Richard
"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."
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"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."
Chris Christie
"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."
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"I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear."
Glenn Close
"I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear."
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"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year."
Edward Tufte
"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year."
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"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
Placido Domingo
"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
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"Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."
James McHenry
"Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."
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"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."
Emmanuelle Beart
"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."
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"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."
James Young
"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."
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"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
Esther Williams
"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
Pete Waterman
"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"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."
John Hench
"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."
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"The public are not stupid."
Pete Waterman
"The public are not stupid."
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"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that."
Vince McMahon
"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that."
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"It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation."
George Stigler
"It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation."
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"Public radio has always been so powerless."
Bob Edwards
"Public radio has always been so powerless."
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"The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other."
Ja Rule
"The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other."
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"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."
Henry Thomas
"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
Jean Cocteau
"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
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"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
Liev Schreiber
"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"I'm a horrible public speaker."
Bill Condon
"I'm a horrible public speaker."
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
Irwin Shaw
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
Placido Domingo
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
Joseph Lancaster
"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public."
Mel Ferrer
"Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public."
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"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
Todd Solondz
"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
Helen Gahagan
"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
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"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."
Steve Burns
"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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