Public Quotes

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

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

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

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

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

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

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

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

I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.