Definition of Publicity

Publicity

The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

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Being, Community, Knowledge, Notoriety, Of, Open, Or, Public, Publicness, Quality, State, The, To

Publicity Quotations

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Elvis Presley

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
Jackie Chan

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
Russell Baker

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. Adams

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
Michael Hutchence

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
Donald Rumsfeld

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
Donald Rumsfeld

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
Emma Watson

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.
Gloria Swanson

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
Jimmy Smits

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis

There is such a thing as bad publicity.
Joyce Brothers

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thomas Wolfe

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
Vanna White

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Wally Schirra

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett

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Publicity Translations

publicity in Dutch is propaganda, verspreiding
publicity in Spanish is reclamo, publicidad
publicity in Swedish is offentlighet

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