Private Quotes

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

My private life is private.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.