Public Figures Quotes - Page 3

• I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

  Moby

  People, Enthusiasm, Attractive

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Thinking, Choices, Visibility

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.

  William A. Rusher

  Years, People, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Play, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Criticism, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

  Benjamin Watson

  Jobs, Athlete, Thinking

  Source: thesource.com

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• I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Games

  Source: sojo.net

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• The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

  John Warren Kindt

  Couple, Years, Gambling

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• I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Numbers, Hearing

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Clinton, Figures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.

  T.I.

  Father, Integrity, Responsibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This not a criticism of [Mitt] Romney; please don't anybody call him up and say I'm ripping him. I'm not. I'm simply telling you that the connection [Donald] Trump has with his supporters, slash, audience, is unique. Not everybody politician has it, and certainly not every public figure has such a connection with their audience.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unique, Criticism, Connections

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

  Moby

  Figures, Aspect, Professional Life

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• If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pigs, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

  Simon Weston

  People, Becoming, Helping

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Important, Sanity

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• I'm now becoming a bit more cognizant of what's going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

  Asher Roth

  Responsibility, White, Hip Hop

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• There's a responsibility level that comes along with being a public figure. I can use this for really cool things. That really [allows] me to be very honest about my experiences.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Responsibility, Use, Levels

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

  Marquis de Sade

  Atheism, Vices, Opinion

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• I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Rap, Would Be, Figures

  "Freddie Gibbs Talks Major Label Saga, "Str8 Killa," Rapping DJs & Rick Ross". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

  Jay Roach

  Giving Up, Privacy, Figures

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Television, Computer

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

  David Gergen

  Country, Trying, Politics

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• At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

  Tom Piazza

  Mother, New Orleans, Sick

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• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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