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I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this. -- Francois Hollande
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. -- Simone Weil
There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business. -- Eduardo Paes
The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging. -- Howard Stringer
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband. -- Jodi Kantor
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide. -- E. F. Benson
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs. -- Grace Abbott
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life... -- Walt Whitman
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. -- James Otis
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. -- Harrison Ford
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. -- Chelsea Clinton
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life. -- Hasan M. Elahi
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. -- Lee H. Hamilton
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another. -- Eleanor Catton
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. -- Myrna Loy
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too. -- Richard Dawkins
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
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. -- Salman Rushdie
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality. -- Georges St-Pierre
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. -- Matt Damon
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. -- Frank Gaffney
Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone. -- Ashley Judd
In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space. -- Lily Koppel
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows. -- Annette Bening
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. -- Terry Eagleton
The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. -- Rudy Giuliani
My private life became public. -- Brigitte Bardot
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character. -- Washington Irving
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life. -- Catherine Deneuve
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye. -- Chelsea Clinton
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. -- George Eliot
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public. -- Nina Dobrev
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. -- Lauren Beukes
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. -- Michael Ovitz
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. -- Kevin McCloud
I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. -- David Blunkett
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I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private. -- Chris Martin
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. -- Ambrose Bierce
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. -- Samuel Parr
I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. -- Charles R. Swindoll
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. -- Roger Mudd
I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life. -- Andrew Breitbart
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. -- E. M. Forster
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It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. -- George Washington
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. -- Joseph Conrad
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. -- Banksy
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. -- Lyn Nofziger
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. -- Thomas Jefferson
My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private. -- Steve Aoki
Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. -- Lyn Gardner
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord. -- Tacitus
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been. -- Susan B. Anthony
I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first. -- Sharon Osbourne
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty! -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live. -- Angelina Jolie

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