Quotes with public-school

Quotes 641 till 660 of 780.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
    Source: Telegram, 14-09-1919
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Winston Churchill There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Hazlitt There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bela Lugosi There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bill Keller There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Bill Medley There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    Source: The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Andrew Morton They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
    Andrew Morton
     
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  • Anthony Holden They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Tacitus Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bill Moyers This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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