Public Life Quotes

• So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

  Princess Diana

  People, Never Forget, Aids

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Compassion, Stewardship

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Son, Office

  "Biden replacement creates blowback" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 24, 2008.

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• A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

  John Foster Dulles

  Motivational, Men, Details

  "Trump's Secretary of State pick: What every American should know about Rex Tillerson" by Robert Charles, www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2016.

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• There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Literature, Determined

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 3

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• The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

  E. M. Forster

  Organization, Doe, Literature

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, "The Nation", July 16, 1938.

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• I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

  Anne Hathaway

  Thinking, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

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• My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Missing, World, Life Is

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

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• Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

  Johnny Isakson

  Real, Winning, People

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• American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Opposites, Degrees

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• I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Talent, Cleanliness, Interest

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• I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Pigeons

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

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Eight, Years, President

  Eulogy for Ronald Reagan, delivered 11 June 2004, National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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• We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Needs, Cooperation, Fairness

  "Just Capital: What the 99% Really Need (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Kind

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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  Barry Commoner

  Art, Law, Medicine

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Hurt, Long

  "The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century".

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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