Public Life Quotes - Page 11

• I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Focus, Trying

  "Beowulf: The Angelina Jolie Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. November 17, 2007.

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• One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Interesting, Able

  "Obama’s Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani". www.beliefnet.com. March 27.

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• Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Attitude, Believe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.

  Mel Gibson

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Ozone, Healthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Ambition, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.229, Oxford University Press

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• A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Home, Night, Order

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Bored

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

  Seymour Hersh

  Lying, People, Henry Kissinger

  Source: www.learntoquestion.com

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• Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Trying, Interviews, Problem

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  Alan Titchmarsh

  I Like You, Grateful, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

  Lord Hailsham

  May, Way, Ruins

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• Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Jobs, Moral, Prime

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• Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.

  Francis George

  Mean, Ideas, Actors

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative. Religion has now turned into a way to discredit people. It is futile and dishonest to argue about religion. Religion is a phenomenological umbrella; there are all kinds of religions. It makes a difference when your religion is telling you something true or something false.

  Francis George

  Country, Religious, Differences

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

  Zadie Smith

  Ideas, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Thinking, People, Ifs

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• Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

  Paul Achleitner

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  Socrates

  Men, Should Have, Honorable Man

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• I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

  Joseph Conrad

  Favoritism, Delicate, Foe

  Joseph Conrad (1937). “Conrad's Prefaces to His Works”, p.66, Ardent Media

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• As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.

  Jacques Myard

  Sorry, Years, Australia

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and understand the urgency of issues. And to that extent, I think it is important how issues are talked about.

  Maya Harris

  Thinking, Opportunity, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Ideas, Substitutes

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.105, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Because of my life experience and because of my public life experience, I have the ability to lead this nation and to bring all people together and to lift up the cause of this nation so that we once again become a nation that comes from the heart and reconnect with our optimism to really create a nation that we can all be proud of.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Heart, People, Optimism

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. September 9, 2003.

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