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Public Quotes
"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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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
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"I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public."
26
"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."
26
"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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"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
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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."
25
"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
25
"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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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper."
25
"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."
24
"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."
24
"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."
24
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
23
"The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was."
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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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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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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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"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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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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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
22
"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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"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
21
"I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB."
21
"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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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
21
"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"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."
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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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"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."
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