Quotes About Public

People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'

Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

I think you can tell stories and give perspectives and yet still keep stuff for yourself, too. I keep a lot of my life private, even in a public forum like writing.

Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.

Well, I think the public has been well-served by the increase in fact-checking. And I find it shocking that not all news outlets have invested in hiring fact-checkers because the line is so pervasive.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

With so many public places banning pets people can't socialise their animals, which makes them more hostile and leads to unsocial behaviour.

The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.

In Naples, each time I go out people want to take my photo or ask for autographs.

When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

Performers only get to do their showing off because the public pay to see them. To deny your audience a photo, whatever the format, seems a little rude to me.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

I don't really go to a lot of parties. It only seems that way because so many photos are taken when I do go to one.

I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

I can't go to sleep on a train anymore because people take photos of me. You know, dribbling. It's a bit embarrassing. I go to sleep with my collar up.

Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and 'Instagram' really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.