Public Life Quotes - Page 5

• A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Details

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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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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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

  E. M. Forster

  Organization, Doe, Literature

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Missing, World, Life Is

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

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• The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

  Fannie Flagg

  Lines, Behavior, Courtesy

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Government, Creating

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Eight, Years, President

  Eulogy for Ronald Reagan, delivered 11 June 2004, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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• Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.

  Martha Minow

  Country, Powerful, Educational

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• The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Writing, Reflection, Men

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• A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

  Lord Hailsham

  May, Way, Ruins

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• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  Alan Titchmarsh

  I Like You, Grateful, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Trying, Interviews, Problem

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

  Paul Achleitner

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

  Aaron Schock

  Adversity, Faces, Defeat

  "Disgraced Rep. Aaron Schock Compares Himself To Lincoln In Farewell Speech" by Laura Barron-Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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• I want to say to you is that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not intend to drive a stake in the heart of religion and to drive it out of our public life. What they intended to do was to set up a system so that we could bring religion into our public life and into our private life without any of us telling the other what to do.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1082, Best Books on

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• Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Religious, Media

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• I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

  Rahul Dravid

  Thinking, Important, Credibility

  "Fixing has got to be a criminal offence". Interview with Sambit Bal, www.espncricinfo.com. August 6, 2013.

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• The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity rising from the stinking junkyard of American public life. At last, some official body has come to a decision about Clinton's conduct that is untainted by politics, cowardice or cynicism.

  Mona Charen

  Integrity, Decision, President

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• Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Men, World

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, People, Ifs

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• It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

  Zadie Smith

  Ideas, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative. Religion has now turned into a way to discredit people. It is futile and dishonest to argue about religion. Religion is a phenomenological umbrella; there are all kinds of religions. It makes a difference when your religion is telling you something true or something false.

  Francis George

  Country, Religious, Differences

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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