Public Figures Quotes

• I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

  James Taylor

  Able, Looking Forward, Figures

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

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• I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

  Bill Foley

  Trying, Littles, Figures

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.

  Lilly Singh

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Unique

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  Carl Honore

  Dust, People, Expectations

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• Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

  Tom Brady

  Life, Adversity, Responsibility

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• A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Poet, Figures, Should

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• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

  Jon Meacham

  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

  Jonathan Knight

  Gay, Magazines, Lgbt

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• If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think?

  Jodie Foster

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  “Jodie Foster at Golden Globes: I came out ‘a thousand years ago’” by Kevin P.Sullivan, www.mtv.com. January 13, 2013.

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• I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

  Liv Tyler

  Kindness, Children, Real

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• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

  Robert Teeter

  Christmas, Country, Stupid

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• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figure Skating, Figures, Sissy

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

  Catherine Keener

  People, Figures, Bottom

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• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  Charles Colson

  Stories, Next, Firsts

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• Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Personality, Important

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• When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

  Moby

  Thinking, Ideas, Figures

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• We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

  Moby

  Fall, People, Judging

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

  Moby

  Believe, People, Musician

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• There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

  Moby

  Issues, Worry, Records

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• It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.

  Naomi Judd

  Four, Next, Hiv

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• One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Bulls, Steps, Zeitgeist

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Doctors, Average

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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