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Public Interest Quotes (page 3)

No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich and glamorous are less fertile ground than the poor and plain, and the dusty corners of the world more interesting than its glittering, already sufficiently publicized centers. John Updike
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. Dick Murphy
Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. Mario Monti
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. Ashley Montagu
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. Kevin Mitnick
The fact is that I've always been interested in politics and public service. I enjoy it and I think it's important and I believe in it. And I've been fortunate to be here when the opportunity has presented itself. Pat Meehan
Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public. Michel Gondry
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to. David Frum
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard. Nathan Deal
Joseph Stiglitz quote: "The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged -..."
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. Joseph Stiglitz
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter. Robert McChesney
The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman. Gavyn Davies
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
John Cusack quote: "I was never interested in being an overly public person."
I was never interested in being an overly public person. John Cusack
You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. Debra Winger

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