Top 55 General Public Quotes

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and ‘March Madness’ are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

To the general public, it’s the nature of the sport that it’s a car-dominant sport.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don’t think is far-fetched at all.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

What people are going to see on my platform is cars from a different perspective – so that I’m still speaking the same language to the general public. I don’t ever want to get too technical.

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.

To the general public, just remember the people around you. You might not know what they’re thinking, so it’s always nice to be checked in on and to check in on people.

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.

The general public don’t like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

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.

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They’re able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

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.

I’m interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

But there’s something delightfully old-school about sitting in the BBC – obviously wearing a bow tie and monocle – with a co-presenter who forgets there’s a webcam in there. It’s also nice to hear from the general public when they’re not swearing at you or asking to extend their credit limit.

What the general public doesn’t always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

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.

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.

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?

I’m proud of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ I don’t need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

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.

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.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

Trump’s divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won’t play well with the general public, either.

Even if people threw tomatoes at me and booed me off stage, at least you can wash out tomatoes, unlike nine hours of abuse from the general public which can affect your mental health.

I really like Adam Curtis’ ‘Century of Self.’ It’s about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like being in an echo chamber. I was definitely more like that in my early twenties – my music was completely inaccessible.

For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What’s interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they’ll have.

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.

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.

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.’

IMDb publishes the actual dates of birth of thousands of actors without their consent, most of them not celebrities but rank-and-file actors whose names are unknown to the general public.

The general public has been conditioned to think ‘comics = superheroes’ for as long as caped crusaders have been around – by critics, mass media, and Marvel and DC themselves, who have what you might call a vested interest.

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.

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you’ve got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the general public. So you don’t get fame, like a football star or a film star. And if you don’t get fame, you can’t do other stuff.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

It isn’t just sports people that need someone to look up to – everyone needs that: LGBT people, the general public. To be honest, it’s nice to feel that I can inspire so many people in so many areas of public life.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

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.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don’t try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn’t reviewed.

I really just do what I like. I don’t understand what the general public likes sometimes.

And one of the things I’ve tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians – reporters and members of the general public alike – a closer look at how their government works.

Even today, my father watches my films only in the theatre with the general public. And he’s very tough. His first call will be to the director and the camera man, and only then will he send me a message.

We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.