Public Figures Quotes - Page 4

• I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.

  Kristen Stewart

  Media, People, Able

  "Kristen Stewart Interview: Vampire's Girl Turns Rock Rebel". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 29, 2010.

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Figures, Mets

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

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• There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

  Moby

  Trying, Figures, Behinds

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• Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

  Erica Jong

  People, Want, Firsts

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• I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Issues, Democracy

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• Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

  Walter Lippmann

  Character, Politics, Journalism

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.458, Harvard University Press

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• If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe, before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Gay, People

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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• With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Machines, Figures, Behinds

  "My life as the man in black". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hero, Dirty, Naughty

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• Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

  Gerard Houllier

  Responsibility, Player, People

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• Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

  Jacqueline de Ribes

  Stars, Figures, Movie Star

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• Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

  Ryan White

  New York, Giving, Support

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• I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.

  Olivia Wilde

  Life Changing, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

  Azealia Banks

  Pain, White, Way

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away.

  Tennessee Williams

  Talking, Addiction, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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