#public

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#china #currency #empire #hard #infusion

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly. ↗

— Barbara Dana

#disobedience #obedience #public-opinion #death

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#nobel #nobel prize #opportunity #prize #public

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else. ↗

— Peter Andre

#blame #else #i #life #mistake

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#dare #electronic #electronic media #eventual #himself

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican. ↗

— Marion Berry

#abraham #abraham lincoln #created #freed #funny

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.' ↗

— Warren Beatty

#anybody #being #friends #how #i

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#been #bush #conservatives #feet #fire

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#damn #finish #give #goes #golden

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#communications #entirely #formal #future #markets