#public life

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#back #had #hoped #i #life

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#being #government #high #kicked #life

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#been #committed #consequence #errors #failures

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#go #help #help people #i #into

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#applause #being #come #different #different reasons

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #figures #inauguration #life #our

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#contrary #domain #economic #element #finally

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#art #concern #education #embedded #firmly