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Public Quotes
"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
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"The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was."
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"I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB."
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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."
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"Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more."
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"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."
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"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
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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."
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"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."
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"If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit."
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"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."
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"Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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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."
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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."
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"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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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."
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"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."
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"When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."
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"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."
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"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
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"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."
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"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."
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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."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."
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"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
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"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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