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Quotes About Private

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
~ Michael Ovitz
I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
~ Macaulay Culkin
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
~ James Otis
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
~ Richard Eyre
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 shows.
~ Annette Bening
In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic.
~ Rob Ford
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
~ Hank Johnson
There are some people in our state who may choose a different public school because they have the private means to move from one district to the other. But why should we limit choice just to those who can financially afford it?
~ Tate Reeves
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
~ Agnes Gund
We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
~ Betsy DeVos
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.
~ Scott Walker
When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.
~ Jim Talent
We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.
~ Ted Lieu
Throughout my life, I have publicly and privately denounced military interventions in domestic politics. In fact, I have been advocating for democracy for decades.
~ Fethullah Gulen
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
~ Dalton Trumbo
If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.
~ Antoine Fuqua
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
~ Tom Glazer
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
~ Derek Walcott
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
~ Nell Freudenberger
Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.
~ Gray Davis
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
~ Henry Paulson
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
~ Leland Ryken
In order to encourage private investors to pursue long-term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks.
~ Jose Angel Gurria