When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

I have a positive outlook, but when you're out in the public eye, you wonder how people see you.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.

I want people to see me as the entrepreneur, the boss, the public figure, the person who motivates.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I'll wear my mom jeans in public that haven't been tailored 'just so' yet, just because they feel good.

Personally, I don't think of myself as a style icon. It's basically because the public loves me so much.

I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

We can't make the public vote for a candidate. And I would never want to campaign for any political party.

So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.

Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

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