Public quotes

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

- Kjell Magne Bondevik

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.

- Julio Iglesias

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

- Placido Domingo

The public is always good.

- Franz Liszt

The public is a bad guesser.

- Thomas de Quincey

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

- Octavia Butler

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

- Henry Thomas

Public radio has always been so powerless.

- Bob Edwards

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

- Tony Benn

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

- Jim Fowler

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

- Olga Korbut

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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

- Cyril Connolly

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

- Mark Twain

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

- Mathias Rust

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

- Errol Flynn

The public has become my fairy godmother.

- Eartha Kitt

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

- Loretta Young

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

- Voltaire

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

- Warren Beatty

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

- Kin Hubbard

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.

- Jim Cramer

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

- Louise Slaughter

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

- Christa McAuliffe

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

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

- George Henry Lewes

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

- Glenn Close

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

- Ja Rule

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

- Dan Glickman

Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!

- Norma Shearer