Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Placido Domingo

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Ben Stiller

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Zadie Smith

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

James K. Polk

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Arthur Henderson

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Alexandra Kerry

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

Daniel Alarcon

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

David Blunkett

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

Irving Azoff

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

Princess Diana

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Pat Riley

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

Salman Khurshid

Everything about my life is private, really. I'm not so sure that any of it has ever been public.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Sandra Oh

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

Tony Abbott

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Timothy White

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Felix Adler

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

Flavor Flav

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Fred Thompson