Public Image Quotes:

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

- John Lydon

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Hard Work, Public Image, Hard

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

- Tom Verlaine

topic: Business, Thinking, Way, Public Image

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

- K. D. Lang

topic: Keys, World, Granted, Low Key, Public Image

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

- Lenny Kravitz

topic: Ideas, Vision, Opinion, Public Image

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

topic: Dream, Integrity, Reading, Recess, Public Image

The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

- Robert T. Bakker

topic: Dinosaurs, Extinction, Facts, Tainted, Public Image

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: War, Doubt, President, Going To War, Public Image

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

- Bono

topic: Kings, Real, Thinking, Pacifism, Turn The Other Cheek

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

- Jen McGowan

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Degrees, Casting, Talent, Public Image

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

- Jacqueline Bisset

topic: Reality, People, Misconception, Public Image

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

- Mara Liasson

topic: School, Law, Bridges, Public Image, Harvard Law School

An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

- Robert Heinecken

topic: Juxtaposition, Aspect, Visuals, Public Image, Literal

In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.

- Jonathan Eig

topic: Successful, Thinking, Creating, Carnegie, Capone

I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Character, Personal Opinions, Play, Public Image

If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.

- Robert Pattinson

topic: Nice, Thinking, Play, Denzel, Film Industry

if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.

- Jan Morris

topic: Taken, Rocks, San Francisco, Loyalists, Public Image

Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid another Inquisition.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Art, Couple, Thinking, Public Image

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Country, Order, Different, Kosovo, Positive Image

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

- Wojciech Kurtyka

topic: Believe, Climbing, Risk, Public Image

I don't care about awards and public image. We know the business of entertainment. We worship our work, we worship our clients and we worship profitability.

- Shailender Singh

topic: Business, Awards, Care, Profitability, Public Image

Yeah!" shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. "What's the matter?" Hamilton challenged. "Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?

- Gordon Korman

topic: School, Rapper, Victory, Too Cool, Public Image

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

- Mario Balotelli

topic: Reflection, Who I Am, Public Image

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

- Rachel Johnson

topic: Worry, Trying, Facts, Public Image, Being A Good Person

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

- Christopher Walken

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

topic: Honesty, Feel Good, Trying, Public Image

I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

- Richard Chamberlain

topic: Gay, Boys, Men, Sissy, Public Image

My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

- Gary A. Kowalski

source: Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.15, New World Library

topic: Friendship, Running, Dog, Firecracker, Public Image

I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.

- Maria Kang

topic: Fall, People, Patterns, Public Image

Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.

- Henry Rosovsky

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: School, Imagination, Leader, Public Image, Alma Mater

What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

- Margaret Cho

topic: Lonely, Depressing, Real, Public Image

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

- John Warren Kindt

topic: Couple, Years, Gambling, Public Image