In Public Quotes
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.
But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.
I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.
For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.
Social media has allowed people to ramp up their personal attacks on people in the public eye - because there is a sense they can do it anonymously.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.
Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.
