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A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings. -- Jim Bridenstine
If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai. -- Thaksin Shinawatra
If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip. -- Katrina Kaif
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support. -- Ryan White
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. -- Irwin Shaw
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.' -- Edward Said
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. -- James Pinckney Miller
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself! -- James Taylor
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. -- Richard M. Nixon
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances. -- Jack Osbourne
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him. -- Terrell Owens
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. -- Italo Calvino
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway. -- Catherine Keener
I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media. -- Kristen Stewart
Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them. -- Jack Dorsey
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. -- Patti Smith
I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can. -- Peng Liyuan
I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband. -- Robert Dallek
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right. -- Carl Honore
I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial. -- Priyanka Chopra
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence. -- Robert Winston
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it. -- Erica Jong
It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. -- Naomi Judd
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. -- David Guterson
I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. -- John Edwards
Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure. -- Nancy Pelosi
Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars. -- Jacqueline de Ribes
Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people. -- Simon Weston
I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure. -- John Malkovich
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure. -- Cynthia Nixon
Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up. -- Jay Roach
I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty. -- Jenji Kohan
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure. -- John Hodgman
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say -- Don Watson
I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status. -- Moby
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. -- Walter Lippmann
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble. -- Henry Giroux
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping. -- Freddie Gibbs
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. -- Charles Krauthammer
I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings. -- Bill Foley
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. -- Charles Colson
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars. -- Jacqueline de Ribes
I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry. -- Azealia Banks
I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop. -- Asher Roth
I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. -- Moby
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy. -- Joshua Lederberg
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. -- David Leavitt
There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences. -- Tyler Blackburn
Even wondered about the difference?Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness. -- Raul Ramos y Sanchez
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. -- Patti Smith
I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality. -- Evan Rachel Wood
I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change. -- Olivia Wilde
A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you." -- Hilary Mantel

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