Quotes of: Public-life Keyword

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

Chris Lowe

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

Lucy Stone

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

Michael Ovitz

Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.

Peter Andre

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of ’94, an obsc...

A Place of Greater Safety

Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t take long after the war to see that the dire prophecies had failed. It became clear that Western ...

Running Commentary: PUBLICATION CANCELLED

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, ...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

Tariq Ramadan

My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.

Lloyd Blankfein

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it sh...

Annette Bening

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Annabella Sciorra

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of ...

Henry Giroux

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

Nile Rodgers

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Grantland Rice

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Monroe

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Jim Hightower

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

Franklin Knight Lane