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I went to public school up until junior high.
Kristen Stewart

School, Until, High

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
James Wolcott

Famous, America, Somebody

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
Cathy Guisewite

Women, Service, Within

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Meryl Streep

Perception, Meet, Industry

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.
Rashida Jones

Work, Definitely, Sector

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Rashida Jones

Care, Control, Talent

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
Peter Singer

Human, Put, Able

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
Tony Blair

Person, Service

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Tony Blair

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand

Hurt, Enjoy, Stage

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.
Michael Bloomberg

Above, Taxes, Spending

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
Chris Christie

Life, Money, Truth

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

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
Jessica Simpson

Career, Devil, Bargain

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Good, Art, Young

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

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Freedom, Democracy, Problem

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

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller

Society, Social, Needs

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.
Katherine Heigl

Boring, Eye, Answer

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.
Katherine Heigl

Mistakes, Keep, Again

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

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
Junot Diaz

Person, Reading, Spend

Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
Junot Diaz

Long, Before, Away

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
Stephen Harper

Dead, Policy, Concept

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.
Jon Meacham

Others, Put, Social

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

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.
Shahrukh Khan

Far, Concerned, India

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

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