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'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.
Susan Orlean

Words, Thought, Brave

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.
Janice Dickinson

Good, Fooling

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
Janice Dickinson

Different, Five, Runway

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
Joni Mitchell

Individual, Eye, Descent

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Jack Nicholson

Age, Women, Hit

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
Sienna Miller

Acting, Film, Open

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu

Health, Doctor, Interested

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
Emma Thompson

Famous, Mean, Two

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Successful, Important, Whether

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
Jonathan Kozol

Greatest, Pretty, Between

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove

Law, While, Actually

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis

Work, Home, Before

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
Francesca Annis

Live, Him, Made

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
Sigmar Gabriel

Freedom, Important, Wrong

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes

Private, Sin

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry

Healing, Place, Ground

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt

Character, Impossible, Betray

Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.
Joe Biden

Care, Two, Before

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
Joe Biden

Give, American, Three

I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.
Kristen Stewart

Hard, Through, Tell

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
John Podhoretz

Hurting, Growth, Act

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Earl Warren

Education, Law, State

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney

Business, Fear, Nothing

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
Mike McCurry

Life, Faith, Strong

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Margaret Chase Smith

Job, Service, Nation

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch

Family, Time, Home

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Phyllis Schlafly

Money, School, Country

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Lord Acton

Faith, Good, Government

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett Hardin

Same, Behavior, General

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson

School, Words, After

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