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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. — Lady Gaga

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television. — Roone Arledge

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States. — Samuel Blumenfeld

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing. — Karim Rashid

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it. — Marilyn Monroe

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. — Julie Gerberding

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do. — Greg Lynn

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. — Patrick Leahy

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty. — Ashraf Ghani

I think the American public wants to see a change. They want a fresh start. — Jason Chaffetz

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. — Albert Einstein

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means. — Haruki Murakami

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind. — Robert Bork

Sometimes the things God gives or reveals to you in private is not meant for the public. — Patience Johnson

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. — Walter Cronkite

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. — Friedrich Schiller

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations. — Grace Cavalieri

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. — Euripides

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress. — Mila Kunis

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent — Oscar Wilde

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs. Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit. — J.D. Robb

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

When it comes to immigration, the journalist's motto is: The public can't be trusted with the truth. — Ann Coulter

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

Art is the word we give to our feelings made public. — Pleasefindthis

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands. — Thomas Beecham

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. — Marian Wright Edelman

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants. — Steven Magee

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy

You've got to change with the public's taste. — Nat King Cole

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. — Thomas Jefferson

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. — Robert Black

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring. — Donna Summer

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. — Richard Castle

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public. — Nicolas Chamfort

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain. — Robert Motherwell

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. — David Mallet

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching. — Tiki Barber

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. — Marion Nestle

in all well-regulated communities, the conveniency of an individual must give way to public good'. — Naresh Fernandes

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public. — Patrick J. Kennedy

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance. — Bob Gibson

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them. — Johnny Carson

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. — Bonnie Wright

The public is gullible ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth. — Bill Maher

The internet is now a forum for public prosecution. — David Cronenberg

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less. — Jerrold Nadler

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round. — Ira Gershwin

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. — Erica Jong

Today Ethereum is the second-longest and fastest-growing public blockchain. The — Don Tapscott

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. — David Baltimore

The fact that 'attention seeking' is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale. — Laurie Penny

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. — Gary Cohn

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson

The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. — George Dyson

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. — James Monroe

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up! — Rick Riordan

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others. — Frederick Romilly

We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us. — Kenneth L. Woodward

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again. — Grover Cleveland

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. — John Osborne

That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. — Paul Emsley

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust. — Ruth J. Simmons

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. — William H. Gray

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced. — Louise Slaughter

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. — T.K. Naliaka

The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. — Alexander Hamilton

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. — Mary Frances Berry

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. — Edward Norton

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items. — Paul Sweeney

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. — Russell Baker

The public always wants to be told. — Edwin Lefevre

(...) there's a rule that no question affecting the general public may be finally decided until it has been debated for three days. — Thomas More

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. — Fran Lebowitz

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions. — Charles H. Townes

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' — Zach Galifianakis

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. — Edward Snowden

and illustrations are in the public domain and are free to use, reproduce, or alter as desired. Cover and — Lewis Carroll

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They'll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it. — Jan Gehl