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Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. -- Nicholas Kristof
I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures. -- John Bercow
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures. -- Robert Bourassa
With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes. -- Joaquin Phoenix
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. -- Moby
I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing. -- Roxane Gay
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. -- William J. Mann
There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. -- Moby
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. -- Gore Vidal
I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures. -- Leander Paes
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth. -- David Carr
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes. -- Sheryl Crow
People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead. -- Jeff Ross
Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported. -- Michael Hastings
My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game. -- David Blunkett
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on. -- Sydney Schanberg
There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished. -- Robert Teeter
More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is. -- Moby
There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. -- Moby
When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician. -- Virginia Postrel
We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short. -- Moby
If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live? -- Margaret Cho
The public doesn't care about figures. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. -- Ida Tarbell
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. -- Bernard Nathanson
It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty. -- Nelson Mandela
I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures." -- Leander Paes
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. -- Stockwell Day
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. -- Marquis de Sade
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. -- David Lloyd George
When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. -- Thomas Friedman
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. -- H. H. Asquith
One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist. -- John MacLachlan Gray
We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies. -- Emilio Estefan
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. -- Jimmy Hoffa
I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans. -- Barack Obama
Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn. -- Gerard Houllier

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