General Public Quotes - Page 5

• In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

  Michael Moore

  America, Use, Kind

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• Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

  Ginger Rogers

  Eye, Years, Careers

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, House, Architecture

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Wall, Thinking, Streets

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

  Source: ilga.org

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• For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

  Ai Weiwei

  Lying, Real, Hero

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Littles, Facts

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• It's generally sort of sociologically observed that the better educated people are, the more liberal they tend to be, which would suggest that professors are going to be more liberal than the general public.

  Louis Menand

  People, Professors, Educated

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!

  Yaya Toure

  Believe, Fighting, Hands

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Rocks, Generations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Gold, Three

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

  Frank Gehry

  Get Better, Desire, Needs

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Action, Horror

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Investing, Making Money

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Military, Home, Class

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• But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Research, Just Being, Producers

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

  James L. Barksdale

  Links, Partners, Beta

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• I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

  George Lucas

  Success, Chance, Opinion

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• Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Charlie Munger's comments on business and investing topics at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public confidence in the corporation has fallen, the expressions of hostility grow sharper.

  James Q. Wilson

  Country, Expression, Corporations

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• I am suspicious and disillusioned about the uses and misuses of photography in the art world, the press, and the world of entertainment. And to make things more complicated, I don't think that the general public is well educated regarding images. Generally we are taught how to read, but we are not taught how to look.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  "The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation with Alfredo Jaar". Art Journal Interview with Patricia C. Philips, www.publicart.ie. 2005.

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• No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Drug, Encounters, Mouths

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• Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.

  Stephen Colbert

  Media, People, Would Be

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