Private Quotes

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

My private life is private.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

I'm a private kind of person.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!