Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.
I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric ve...
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
Private Joker: [narrating] Our last night on the island. I draw fire watch.
Kevin McCallister: Buzz, I'm going through all your private stuff! You'd better come out and pound me!
Private Cox: [beating up Mason] English prick. I tell you my old man was Irish?
