#public life

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#celebrity #cleanly #i #i can #intentionally

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brought #chosen #courage #fact #forgotten

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations. ↗

— George William Norris

#about #advocate #agreement #been #between

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

— Arlen Specter

#being #government #high #kicked #life

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning. ↗

— Robert Casey

#beginning #issue #life #public #public life

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

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#highly #life #lower #morality #more

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dead #elected #favorite #haven #i

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

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#did #found #hurt #i #know