Quotes About Public

What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.