Private Life Quotes - Page 10

• New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

  Zelda Popkin

  New York, Fire, Car

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

  Rosita Forbes

  Food, Sheep, Monsters

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Dirty

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• These days, more than any other time, we are worried about our personal life, our private life. When we talk about our private life, it means our home, our body even. It seems that when we want to have calmness in this world, we make a wall around us. This gives us a very calm environment, and when we feel that somebody is intruding into that, it makes us very angry and we feel we have to do something about it.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Wall, Mean, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

  Matthew Rhys

  Get Up

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• I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television, World, Shock

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• People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Stars, People, Married

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• There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

  Karrine Steffans

  Share

  "Former 'Video Vixen' Talks Sexuality and Power". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 9, 2007.

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• I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

  Donna Summer

  Want, Pretending

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• The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

  Howard Stringer

  New York, Connections, Lost

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• I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Sacred

  "Elizabeth McGovern: the lady is a vamp" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

  John Jortin

  Mean, Men, Greatness

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• Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

  Andy Murray

  Trying

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

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• I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

  Francois Hollande

  Believe, Matter, Should

  "François Hollande calls a halt to marital hostilities on Bastille Day" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, Government, Roots

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

  Malcolm Allison

  Football, Names, Wife

  "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

  David Hare

  Loss, Thinking, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Responsibility, Childhood

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• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  Peter Drucker

  Home, Fate, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge

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• If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophical, People, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.267, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

  David Gerrold

  Imagination, Important, Want

  David Gerrold (2013). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.114, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Issues, Mind

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Imagination, Mind

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• I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

  Danny Kaye

  I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.

  William Cobbett

  Writing, Views, Tyrants

  Political Register, August 14, 1819.

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