Public Eye Quotes

• I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

  Aaliyah

  Missing You, Running, Eye

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• You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

  Tiki Barber

  Eye, Touching, High Standards

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• A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Eye, Views

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• As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?

  Brett Dennen

  Writing, Heart, Eye

  Source: www.tntechoracle.com

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• There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

  Steven Spielberg

  Eye, Sometimes, Deny

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• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  Taylor Swift

  Eye, Internet, Dangerous

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• Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

  Alanis Morissette

  Teenager, Taken, Eye

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Eye, People, Aspect

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• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye

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• The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

  Dan Savage

  School, Kids, Eye

  "Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

  Britney Spears

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "A defiant Britney Spears Takes on the Tabloids". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I think being in the public eye can only help me launch into the world of fashion.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Eye, Thinking

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• It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Eye, People

  "Stefani Shuts Down Website". www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2004.

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• I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Eye, Thinking

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• I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

  Sheryl Crow

  Regret, Mistake, Eye

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• I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Eye, Information

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• I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

  Amy Grant

  Eye, Talking, Different

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• It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

  Geri Halliwell

  Eye, Media, People

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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• I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

  Ryan Lochte

  Eye, Long, Trying

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• When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

  James McGreevey

  Eye, Gay, Editors

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• My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

  Joni Mitchell

  Eye, Ascent, Psychological

  "Midnight and Cerulean: The Joni Mitchell Blues" by Kristen Bialik, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  Mandy Moore

  Growing Up, Eye, People

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• Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Eye, Writing

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