I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.
A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Surely such a figure could truly transfom and change the entire country; education, health, shooling, entrepreneurial environment... of mi...
I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a figure could truly transform the entire country; education, health, roads, schooling, entrepreneurial environment... of millions of...
There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.
I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.
