Private Quotes

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

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.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.