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Quotes 301 till 320 of 472.

  • Barry Diller The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Albrecht Durer The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Noam Chomsky The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The basis of effective government if public confidence.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Angela Carter The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Oscar Wilde The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Seth Godin The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Bernstein The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
    An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992)
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is going into it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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