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The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear. -- Samuel R. Delany
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. -- Scott Adams
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. -- George Lucas
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. -- Noah Feldman
I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes. -- Rob Zombie
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. -- Andrew Mellon
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. -- Bernard Tschumi
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
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see. -- Steven Wright
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. -- Michael Polanyi
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. -- Christa McAuliffe
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. -- Roger Bannister
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth. -- Brian Greene
The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. -- Noam Chomsky
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels. -- Camille Paglia
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. -- Joseph Rotblat
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. -- Katharine Graham
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. -- Camille Paglia
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. -- Alex Berenson
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. -- Smedley Butler
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
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. -- Tom Wolfe
You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.' -- Betty White
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists? -- Alan Alda
By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build up their campus networks. So I remember thinking, 'Well, how are we going to get this in the hands of the general public?' There were no public Internet services at that point. -- Vint Cerf
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. -- Steve Albini
Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. -- Mel Ferrer
I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public. -- Yingluck Shinawatra
Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. -- James McHenry
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. -- Clay Shirky
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. -- Richard V. Allen
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. -- Johan Huizinga
No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. -- John Lydon
A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does. -- William Delbert Gann
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general. -- Bob Kane
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. -- Anthony S. Fauci
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. -- Benjamin Graham
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think. -- Sid Vicious
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. -- Fran Lebowitz
Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more. -- Chris Elliott
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public. -- Paul Krugman
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires. -- Frank Gehry
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings. -- Marco Brambilla
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997. -- George Lucas
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science. -- David Perlmutter
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. -- John Updike
The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. -- Billy Barty
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Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. -- Edmund Burke
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. -- Benjamin Butler
The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them -- Noam Chomsky
The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues. -- Richard Carmona
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will. -- Dixie Lee Ray
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. -- David Lloyd George
The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. -- Isaac Asimov
The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question. -- Marion Nestle
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will. -- Thomas Pynchon
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated. -- Eugene V. Debs
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
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
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. -- Charles Vest
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public. -- Charles Vest
This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel) -- Uri Orbach
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. -- Liza Minnelli
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. -- Frederick Pollock
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
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. -- James C. Scott
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
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. -- Steve Lacy
We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level. -- David Miliband
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. -- Christina Romer
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. -- Garrett Hardin
The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends. -- Jennifer Saunders
We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs. -- Edward Snowden
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. -- B. Carroll Reece
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity. -- James K. Polk
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. -- William Blackstone
We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads. -- Dave Davies
Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind. -- Hyman Rickover
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. -- Samuel Chase
Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen. -- Bennie Thompson
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. -- Friedrich List
I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person. -- Curtis Jackson
Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor. -- Bobby Flay
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. -- Garrett Hardin
They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.Not that that stopped it from happening anyway. -- Violet Cross
If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now. -- Simon Cowell
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive. -- Noam Chomsky
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way. -- Antony Hewish
It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians. -- Christopher Bollen
There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others. -- Conrad Black
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
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. -- Martin McGuinness
Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age. -- Starhawk
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. -- Pete Wilson

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