Quotes About Ownership

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

We're in the west, and we have a rich history of gun ownership and hunting, but people here across the state understand the difference between public safety and personal ownership and that we can have both if we protect the second amendment.

Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we'll give it.

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher of the song - not the singer - and make two separate deals.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.

I should have my own publishing companies.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

Don't sell your publishing.

Don't sign your publishing away.

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.'

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

The passionate fans, pumped full of adrenalin, think they own their club and, by extension, the players because they play for their club. They don't. It is the club who 'own' the player, and only while he is under contract.

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'