Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
The power of the ‘Muppets,’ and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people’s lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately… Privately, hell, I’m with them for life, and I love these people. They’re my second family.
On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country’s war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction.
We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we’re doing publicly, ‘like’-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but to God, then I will feel like I have been successful.
I just don’t think it’s appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
I don’t like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
Donald Trump’s own intelligence is publicly saying that Russia is actively trying to help him and hurt Joe Biden.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
I’m worried about privacy – the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It’s amazing how much data there is out there on us. I’m worried that it can be abused and will be abused.
I was able to come out as gay publicly because my family had accepted me. They thought nothing of it, and without them I wouldn’t have been able to do it. If I didn’t have them in my life I would have felt like I had no one.
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
It’s common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.
I haven’t said anything bad about Fay Vincent publicly, and I won’t. I like him personally.
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable.
I’ve been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do – you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That’s the point of poetry. You’re supposed to go, ‘Hmmmm,’ and ‘Woooh!’
A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can’t say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the ‘practice’ comment, but every game, he gave it his all.
I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference – the things I’m passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.
In full accordance with the law – and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives – the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa’ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones.
The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.
I never said I wanted to move to Real Madrid. If I did, I would have said so publicly.
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
I’ve been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?
Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what’s happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they’re all coming back up off the mat now.
Publicly, defense lawyers cling to the text book theory that the defendant has no burden of proof and that no negative inference should ever be taken when a defendant doesn’t defend himself on the witness stand.
I’m not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That’s not what I set out to do.
Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to… What else? Buy votes.
Our family is everything to me, my kids, and I’m proud of the family and the relationship and how hard we’ve worked. We’ve publicly gone through stuff and made it work. And I’m so glad that we did, ’cause our family so strong and so amazing. I’m blessed.
I’m private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.
I’m still going to make mistakes, but I don’t have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.
When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but where they ask for our assistance we’ll give it.
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don’t.
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
How many McDonald’s gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
I don’t get into that second guessing of myself publicly.
When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.
Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they’re going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
I’m very English, and we don’t talk about emotions publicly.
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don’t test on animals.
As Leander does not have a strong case in court, he is resorting to underhand tactics through a few tabloids from time to time to malign my name publicly, without any proof to back his claims.
An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if – that flag – in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things – should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost.
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.
I am a person who always puts the team in front and I do it publicly.
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I’m on the whole a fairly shy person.
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
‘Instagram’ is great if you want to share photos, but you’re not that technical. Or, if you’re not interested in sharing publicly, ‘Instagram’ becomes a place where you can not only consume photos and videos from musicians, or whoever, but send them directly to your friends.
It’s always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It’s a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
