Private Life Quotes - Page 6

• The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, World

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

  Rolf Dobelli

  Simple, Thinking, Errors

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• Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Lunch, People, Gone

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• I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

  Sophia Myles

  Attention, Chosen, Invited

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

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• I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

  Lauren London

  Struggle, Answers, Speculation

  "‘Under My Skin’ Exclusive Interview w/ Lauren London". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

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• For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

  Butch Otter

  Responsibility, Idaho, Government

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• I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

  Mike Schmidt

  Couple, Fun, Games

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• My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

  Alice Eve

  Strong, Dad, Believe

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• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Citizens, Done

  The Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

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• It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

  Bjorn Borg

  Motivation, Thinking, Play

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• The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

  Raymond Queneau

  People, Iliad, Disorder

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• I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

  Georges St-Pierre

  People, Personality, Important

  "Georges St-Pierre reveals his personal, philosophical side in new book". Interview with Loretta Hunt, www.si.com. April 24, 2013.

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• The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

  David Herbert Donald

  Ambition, Careers, Accomplishment

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• I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

  David Blunkett

  Events, November, Late

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• We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

  Robert Reich

  Believe, Government, Want

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

  Clark Gable

  Keys, Lessons, Have Faith

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

  Ron Paul

  Government, House, Secret

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Media, People

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Able

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• There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

  Marlo Thomas

  Thinking, Attention, Should

  "Sex Scandals: Another Double-Standard" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2013.

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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Names, Knowing

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• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mom, Children, Dad

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