Private Life Quotes - Page 7

• The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Temptation, Retreat

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• Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Jobs, Law, Secret

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• In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how we view intelligence and attention. We have to rethink it all in a more interactive, networked, and collaborative way.

  Cathy Davidson

  Views, Attention, Gone

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• When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

  Gloria Swanson

  Complaining, Stories, Bills

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 22 July 1950

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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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• I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his creatures... Whenever the present storm subsides, I shall rush with eagerness into the bosom of private life, but while it continues, and while my country calls for the exertion of that little share of abilities, which it has pleased God to bestow on me, I hold it my indispensable duty to give myself to her.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Country, Giving, Storm

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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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• Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Christian Values, Office, Scary

  "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye" by Connie Page (Ms. magazine), February 1987.

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• Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Life, Religion, Privacy

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• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, People, Disputes

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• I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

  Bode Miller

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• Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Jobs, Order, Challenges

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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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• Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

  Lauren Beukes

  Secret, Three, Public Life

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• In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

  Emmanuelle Riva

  Acting, Draws

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• A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

  Willie Nelson

  Government, Personal Freedom, Arresting

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• I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Training, Insane, Stuff

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• There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Moving, Riding

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• Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.

  Jerry Siegel

  Crush, Girl, School

  "In the beginning" by Jerry Siegel, 1983.

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• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Public Opinion

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• It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Destruction

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• I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Shy, Intimacy, Persons

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

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• I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

  Matt Damon

  People, Risk, Events

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

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• In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

  James Madison

  People, Liberty, Citizens

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