There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and I just didn't fit in very well.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
