Quotes About Public

I was the Kate Moss of my day, atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot. I was always tall, skinny and angular. But now, society has bought 55 years of my marketing 'Carmen,' and I'm considered beautiful. I hope that empowers older women.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.

Unfortunately the work that I do and the way the public perceives me is that I'm the hot, tall blonde. Of course I play it up.

I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.

People see me with sparkles and fake tan but nobody knows what I am like!

I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, 'Hey, Tan!' I turn around thinking, 'Do I know you?'

Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.

The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding.

The relationships we will be discussing are among the most sensitive in contemporary America—so sensitive that hardly anyone writes or talks about them in public. It is not for lack of information, as you will see.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The great silent majority.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

When urgent considerations of the public safety require compromise with the normal principles constraining law enforcement, the normal principles may have to bend. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

Hoover wrote, "The necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.