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When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
White House staff spends enormous amounts of time planning a president's every move so that his public persona reflects the mood of the public.
I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.
Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Ever since I was 15, I've tried to act and talk as if I was a public figure because I was sure that I would be one day and wanted to be prepared.
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.