A Quote by William Henry Vanderbilt

The public be damned. — © William Henry Vanderbilt
The public be damned.

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The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.
The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.
I'm not human, Ms. Deveraux. In case you haven't noticed, I'm one of the damned. (Valerius) Baby, open your eyes and look around. We're all damned in one way or another. But damned is a far cry from dead. And you live like you're dead. (Tabitha) I'm that, too. (Valerius)
I'm damned if I do what I need to do with the media to support my kids, and I'm damned if I don't. If I don't, I can't take care of them.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.
He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies.
Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.
The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.
Kobe's been criticized unfairly. He's in a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. If he passes too much, they say he's not shooting. If he shoots, he's called selfish.
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
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