Quotes About Public

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.

Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.

When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.

I didn't tell anybody anywhere on planet Earth that I support Donald Trump as a candidate.

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

I can't go shopping like I did before I was famous. It has to be planned now. I can't walk around a shopping centre. Even when I have four security guards with me, shoppers run towards me. It's fun, but it's difficult when you're trying to get your bits.

I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of public persona - it's all about the fame of the artist. I really don't want to be a star. I just want to have a platform.

Everyone should be themselves, and everybody makes mistakes, and young people who have a platform like I have, I know people who have a much bigger platform who are much more influential, who have made mistakes and learnt from them and had to do that on a public stage.

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine for truth.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.

You can't please everyone in life, which is especially true for great stars.