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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. -- Ian Mckellen
I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals. -- Lamorne Morris
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes. -- Billy Collins
The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes. -- John Ashcroft
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart. -- Jane Bowles
I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French. -- Ian Shoales
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. -- Jane Jacobs
Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. -- W. H. Auden
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. -- William Gibson
Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places. -- Anthony Trollope
I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' -- Zach Galifianakis
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy. -- Gavin Newsom
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy -- Gavin Newsom
I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. -- Ned Vizzini
Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens. -- Stewart Udall
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private. -- Charles Colson
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. -- J. M. Roberts
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety. -- Woodrow Wilson
People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you're better than them, and they get resentful. -- Jessica Zafra
We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. -- Salman Rushdie
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. -- Billy Collins
I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places. -- Narendra Modi
Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to those who seem to care. -- Phindiwe Nkosi
A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday. -- John Updike
Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country. -- Khaled Hosseini
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing. -- Neil Gaiman
The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines. -- Andrew Lansley
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing."[The Guardian, 15 October 2013] -- Neil Gaiman
I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there. -- David Lynch
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today. -- Richard Posner
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today. -- Richard Posner
When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places. -- Pankaj Mishra
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The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort. -- Casey Neistat
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. -- James Fenton
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate. -- Yitzhak Rabin
I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events. -- Curtis Sliwa
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. -- Noah Feldman
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. -- Samuel Johnson
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. -- Earl Warren
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place. -- Mandy Patinkin
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. -- Hernan Cortes
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. -- Carolyn McCarthy
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening. -- Maria Bamford
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go. -- Christine Pelosi
The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public. -- Mark Kennedy
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs. -- Chris Vance
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate. -- Tony Kushner
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. -- Francis Walsingham
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. -- Barbara Boxer
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. -- Cynthia Dill
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. -- Grover Cleveland
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers. -- Richard Meier
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. -- Keith Richards

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