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  • Bob Sheppard Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
    Bob Sheppard
     
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Blake Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • William Hazlitt Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Walt Whitman O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ignazio Silone On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Anita Loos On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Henderson On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Noam Chomsky On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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