I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.
The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
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