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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare
Statesman
Guiding
Follow
Follows
Having
Horses
Firm
Opinion
His
Hold
Public
Them
Should
Doubtless
Public Opinion
Reins
With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
Ava DuVernay
Saying
You
Humanity
People
Matter
Focus
Black
Community
Dissent
Hoping
Folks
Inside
About
Outside
Protest
Go
Lot
Same
Movement
Public
Dismantle
Really
Means
Notion
Homes
Lives
I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Truth
Family
Me
Hurt
Truth Is
Cause
Assume
Statements
Clan
Members
Some
Shamed
Outrage
Deal
Undoubtedly
Closest
Want
Public
Them
Public Statements
Actually
I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose scripts, I take out the garb of an actor-slash-star, and I consume the script as a layman.
Ayushmann Khurrana
Black
Films
Out
Layman
Consume
Take
Bought
Since
Tickets
Boy
Am
Revered
Childhood
Script
Public
Scripts
Choose
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
B. B. King
Me
Try
Everything
Record
Never
Songs
Come
Like
Know
Sound
Go
Go For It
Up
Going
Just
Anyway
Public
Then
Suit
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
Ban Ki-moon
Work
Natural
Natural Disasters
Other
Response
Charitable
Emergencies
Rely
Generosity
Armed
Disasters
Well
Continue
Governments
Donations
Conflicts
Public
Agencies
Humanitarian
Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.
Banks
Life
Music
My Life
Become
Part
Most
Am
Private
Place
Public
Who
Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
Barbara Boxer
Long
Our
Resources
Recognized
Vast
Protect
American
Public
Lands
Public Lands
Need
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
Barbara Boxer
Education
Good
Privacy
Rights
Woman
Fight
Public Education
Think
System
Dream
Environment
Democrats
American
American Dream
Public
Choose
Right
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Barbara Kruger
About
Constructed
Ideas
Identities
Deal
How
Hearsay
Fame
Histories
Trying
Public
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
Barbara Kruger
Art
Crazy
Think
About
Uncomfortable
Feel
Term
Categories
Sure
Because
Does
Public
Then
Means
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
Barney Frank
Will
Healthy
System
Entirely
More
Clear
Also
Untouched
Policy
Inequality
Left
Efficiency
Than
Maximum
Public
Produce
Capitalist
Public Policy
Socially
Necessary
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
Barney Frank
Today
People
Take For Granted
Say
Carried
Out
Take
Policies
How
Affected
Very
Going
Public
Should
Notion
Granted
Many
Whose
Lives
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
Barry Diller
Service
Lost
Broadcasting
More
More Or Less
Clear
Been
Very
Happened
Public
Really
Used
Less
Public Service
Now
I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
Barry Humphries
Great
You
Nervous
Stage
Addict
Guess
Say
Though
Bad
Adrenalin
Could
Excitement
Stuff
Doing
Stimulation
Very
Fright
Get
Stage Fright
Public
Even
The public doesn't know what to believe anymore. We don't know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of 'fake news.' We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It's half entertainment and half mystery.
Barry Levinson
News
You
Entertainment
Half
Fake News
Believe
Guess
Would
Mystery
True
Idea
Supposedly
Know
Call
Fake
Anymore
Stories
Public
Watch
The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
Barry Manilow
Needs
Diabetes
Cancer
About
Know
Public
Much
Need
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
Barry Ritholtz
Time
Fashion
You
Writing
Perspective
Research
Once
About
Develop
Idea
Real
Begin
Often
Real Time
Anything
Public
Views
Helped
You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
Barry Sternlicht
You
Because
Access
Equity
Go
Debt
Want
Form
Public
Capital
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
Bart Stupak
Health
Abortion
Voting
Language
Care
Resolve
Health Care
Public
Funding
Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
Barton Gellman
Great
Classified
Federal
Prosecutors
Documents
Making
Want
Public
Many
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
Barton Gellman
Health
State
Would
Cross
Emergencies
Attack
Boundaries
Over
Governors
Normally
Jurisdiction
Public
Public Health
Biological
Widespread
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
Barton Gellman
Political
Chaos
Telling
About
How
Governments
Than
Behave
Bureaucratic
Public
Far
Far Less
Less
Reasons
Initial
Prepare
Event
Levels
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
Barton Gellman
Confidence
Legal
Worry
Security
About
Shareholders
Vendors
Said
Loss
Report
Experts
Public
Customer
Flaws
Companies
Liability
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
Bayard Rustin
Education
Vote
Rights
School
Year
Every
District
Civil
Civil Rights
Compromise
Segregation
Demand
Housing
Integrated
Effective
Ended
Legislation
Decent
Public
Filibuster
Include
Right
I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
Beeban Kidron
Life
Service
My Life
Believe
Think
Been
Very
Public
Lucky
Public Service
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