Quotes of: Public-figures Keyword

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

Richard Seymour

Figure skating is not a hobby. It's my work, which I want to do, and do well.

Adelina Sotnikova

When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

A Fighting Chance

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Barbara Jordan

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Bruce Jackson

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.

Estelle Morris

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Robert Peel

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjy Benjamin: Look! We've figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don't like the way we figured it! So now, there's only one way to figure it. And that is, eve...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on...

Mikawadizi Storms

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so...

How to Like Everything: A Utopia

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret dip...

Slavoj Zizek

A figure 8 doesn’t figure into my plans to live to infinity.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Michelle Kwan

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

Wole Soyinka

Sexual distortions carry strong undertones of prejudice—sexism, racism and homophobia—that rob individuals of their individuality. Common stereotypes include “men are all dogs,” “women are less interested in sex,” “gays are promiscuous,...

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

Karen Duffy