Private Life Quotes

• I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Patriotic, Political, President

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• I've always been a private person and I've always valued my private life.

  Amber Heard

  Persons

  "Amber Heard Interview THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2011.

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• My private life is the most precious thing to me.

  Leona Lewis

  Life Is, Precious Things

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  People, Details, Invisibility

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• Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

  Kate Mara

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clever, Secret, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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• Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

  Jay Kay

  Way, Life Is

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• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Silly, Artist, People

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• I like to keep most of my private life private.

  Logan Mankins

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• What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

  Rob Lowe

  People, Life Is

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• 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

  Liberty, Used, No Hope

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• ... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

  Charles Dickens

  Office, Words Of Wisdom, Castles

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.235

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• I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Hate, Home, Talking

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Talking, Use

  "TIME" Magazine, August 8, 2005.

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• 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

  Thinking, Focus, Trying

  "Beowulf: The Angelina Jolie Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. November 17, 2007.

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• It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

  Shakira

  Glasses, Water, Life Is Like

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• A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Want, Pleasure, Domesticity

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• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Men, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Taken, Men, People

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.20

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• Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Writing, Secret

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.453, Courier Corporation

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• I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

  Jean Harris

  Wanted To Die, Wanted, Dies

  "Mrs. Harris Tells Court She Wanted Her Suicide To Be 'a Private Death'" by James Feron, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 1981.

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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• From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

  Tyra Banks

  Top Model, Moments, Walks

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• My private life became public.

  Brigitte Bardot

  "Brigitte Bardot on Cannes, celebrity and career". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Use, Inappropriate

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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