#public

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

#being #being famous #certain #famous #field

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#highly #life #lower #morality #more

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man. ↗

— Rip Torn

#aside #dress #ever #go #gonna

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out. ↗

— Ted Turner

#closer #coal #democrats #entrenched #few

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. ↗

— John Vinocur

#carlo #covers #fought #lost #magazine

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bag #find #mixed #people #public

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me. ↗

— Sela Ward

#i #i do #me #most #press

I'm a horrible public speaker. ↗