Public Figures Quotes

• I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

  James Taylor

  Able, Looking Forward, Figures

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

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• I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

  Bill Foley

  Trying, Littles, Figures

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.

  Lilly Singh

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Unique

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  Carl Honore

  Dust, People, Expectations

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• Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

  Tom Brady

  Life, Adversity, Responsibility

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• A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Poet, Figures, Should

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• I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

  Catherine Keener

  People, Figures, Bottom

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• 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

  Bulls, Steps, Zeitgeist

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• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  Charles Colson

  Stories, Next, Firsts

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• It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

  Naomi Judd

  Four, Next, Hiv

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• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Return, Bitter

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• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figure Skating, Figures, Sissy

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• 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

  Voice, Village, Way

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• Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

  Jack Dorsey

  Coffee, Interesting, Rose

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

  Terrell Owens

  Guy, May, Figures

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• 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

  Responsibility, Wish, Figures

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. November 11, 2012.

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• The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Mistress, Lines, Cabinets

  "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.

  Stewart Brand

  Views, Answers, Honest

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.243, Penguin

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• Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

  Robert Orben

  Memorable, Thinking, People

  "The Joke's On George, Mike, Dan and Lloyd" by Janet Cawley, Chicago Tribune, p. 23, September 22, 1988.

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• I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Letting Go, Heart, Thinking

  "Nixon On the Couch". www.jewishworldreview.com. October 18, 1999.

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• It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spotlight, Figures, Duty

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• It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

  Robert Bourassa

  Mind, May, Figures

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• I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

  Priyanka Chopra

  People, Way, Tvs

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• I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

  John Bercow

  Psychics, Mind, Figures

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