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Public Quotes


"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."


"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."


"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."


"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."



"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."


"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."


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


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


"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."


"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."


"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."


"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."


"Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more."


"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."


"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."


"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."


"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory."



"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."


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



"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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!"


"If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit."


"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."


"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."


"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."


"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."


"I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB."


"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."


"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."


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


"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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