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Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. -- Beverly LaHaye
Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. -- Beverly LaHaye
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it. -- Marian Seldes
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities. -- Geoffrey Rush
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. -- Thomas Nashe
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? -- William Greider
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
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. -- Plutarch
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. -- Robert D. Kaplan
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
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity. -- Muhammad Yunus
The power of the 'Muppets,' and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people's lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately... Privately, hell, I'm with them for life, and I love these people. They're my second family. -- Frank Oz
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 line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. -- Lauren Beukes
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Helping people helps defines a strategy that makes public and private moneys more effective when it comes to helping save lives. -- George W. Bush
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 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

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