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The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits. -- Michael Longley
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. -- Ludwig Quidde
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. -- Joseph Pulitzer
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them. -- Princess Diana
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. -- James Otis
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. -- Chelsea Clinton
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. -- Rose Kennedy
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life. -- George H. W. Bush
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. -- Bernard Baruch
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. -- Pat Riley
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. -- Peter Schuyler
Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government. -- David Blunkett
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. -- Jim Wallis
I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them. -- Georges St-Pierre
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life. -- Annie Besant
I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow. -- Ken Livingstone
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. -- Os Guinness
Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions. -- John Thune
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. -- Gavyn Davies
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. -- Johnny Isakson
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. -- Richard Dawkins
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens. -- King Felipe VI
And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else. -- Chris Christie
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. -- Will Self
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. -- Cornel West
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. -- Edward Kennedy
My private life became public. -- Brigitte Bardot
[The] public path of life Is dirty. -- Edward Young
I've never had a very great public life. -- Cameron Mackintosh
Public life is constantly aware of the volcano. -- Werner Herzog
My whole life has been dedicated to public service. -- Leon Panetta
The public is a part of my real life. -- Placido Domingo
I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life. -- Safak Pavey
Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye. -- Shannen Doherty
In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun. -- Brett Ratner
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life. -- Joe Mantegna
Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they? -- Hillary Clinton
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust. -- Tina Brown
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. -- Robert Casey
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! -- Dorothea Dix
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. -- E. M. Forster
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life. -- Portia de Rossi
I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life. -- Chelsea Clinton
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, -- Eleanor Roosevelt
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. -- Maurice Chevalier
My life is going to continue to be public, and I just accept that. -- Robert Knepper
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. -- Anne Hull
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character. -- Washington Irving
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life. -- Catherine Deneuve
I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. -- Jack Nicholson
I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service. -- Hillary Clinton
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public. -- Winslow Homer
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out. -- Ian Mckellen
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. -- Billy Collins
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. -- Edward Tufte
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. -- Chelsea Clinton
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. -- Tom Robbins
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. -- George Eliot
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes. -- Abigail McCarthy
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas. -- Adolf Hitler
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. -- Lauren Beukes
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others. -- Lucy Larcom
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story. -- Kevin Spacey
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think. -- Katharine Hepburn
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. -- John Calvin
I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public. -- Nina Dobrev
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. -- Dave Eggers
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. -- Horace Mann
Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. -- Justin Trudeau
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. -- Arlen Specter
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. -- Patti Smith
I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service. -- Beeban Kidron
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob -- H. L. Mencken
I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. -- Nell Newman
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. -- Michael Ovitz
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. -- Samuel Butler
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. -- Simone Weil
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. -- Dee Dee Myers
Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life. -- Christabel Pankhurst
I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life, -- Gene Robinson
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. -- Harrison Ford
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine. -- Max Burns
My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family. -- Bill de Blasio
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. -- Horace
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. -- Kevin McCloud
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life. -- Gene Robinson
In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life. -- Nick Kroll
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. -- Patti Smith
I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important. -- Rahul Dravid
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Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else. -- Peter Andre
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. -- Studs Terkel
I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service. -- Jeb Bush
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. -- David Blunkett
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas. -- Ludwig von Mises
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go. -- Jason Sudeikis
The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. -- Lucy Hale
I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice, -- Richard M. Nixon
It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, -- Solomon Northup
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. -- Claire McCaskill
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. -- Robertson Davies
I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life. -- Mickey Rooney
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life. -- Bridget Moynahan
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. -- Lee H. Hamilton
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. -- Ambrose Bierce

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