Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

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

Ruth J. Simmons

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.

Andrew Bogut

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Chester A. Arthur

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

Mark Begich

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

Robin Wright

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

Douglas Feith

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 relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Andy Goldsworthy

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it...

Neil Armstrong

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Joshua Bell

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

Robert Vaughn

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

Brian McKnight

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

Nellie McKay

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

Ami Bera

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Xun Zi

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

Erin Cummings

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Robert De Niro

I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

Adam Carolla

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine