Quotes About Public

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

I had the pleasure of getting to know David Beckham, an icon of football and beyond that. He's a great person, but I had no idea he was such a shy guy. Sometimes when you speak to him he blushes. It's very strange, he's famous around the world but in private he is very shy.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

Some people come up to me in public and they're like, 'Oh my God, are you Noah from TikTok?' It's so weird to get recognized for that. I think it's the really young fans who have never even heard of 'Stranger Things.'

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

All over America, you see women in yoga pants and men in sweatpants, even when they are not on their way to or from a yoga class or softball field. When I fly, I see so many sweat suits – even pajamas – on my fellow travelers that it's as though the airplane were the sleeper car of a train bound for summer camp or a gym in the sky, not a public space for business people and vacationers.

The groundlessness of modern society, characterized by the reduction of pedestrian experience to the operation of a stepping machine, and by the corresponding elevation of head over heels as the locus of creative intelligence, is…deeply embedded in the structures of public life in western societies.

It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other, acknowledged or unacknowledged, they were/ are being paid for, or hugely subsidized, by the state, a state that was/ is itself greatly in debt.

Government should be democratic and 'carry out for them all, and only, what is needed to be done for the people as a whole. It must not interfere with what the people can do for themselves in their own centres.

none of the elected representatives present ever seems to have reflected on the irony of the fact that of all the views and arguments put forward, none was prefaced by the simple expression 'my constituents...'.