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Quotes About Private

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
~ Martin Van Buren
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.
~ W. G. Sebald
I'm not the candidate who puts his kids in private schools.
~ George Brauchler
Almost all of my business flights are commercial, not private.
~ Jesse Itzler
Off the court I'm always shy, I don't talk much. On the floor I'm a different guy.
~ Goran Dragic
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
~ Michael Dell
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
~ Tom Brokaw
In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
The government is one entity which can control fraud, both public and private.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.
~ Chris Gibson
Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.
~ Betsy Hodges
Do I get a salary?' inquired Tik-Tok. 'You get your share of the plunder,' answered the Queen. 'Yes,' remarked Files, 'one-half of the plunder goes to Queen Ann, the other half is divided among the officers, and the Private gets the rest.
~ Frank Baum
They learned early that sharing secret or private names was an ancient device for ensnaring a person in affections.
~ Frank Herbert
I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
~ Franz Kafka
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
~ Wilbur Smith
I would like here to announce to all Indonesian Muslims that I, as a private citizen, am prepared to take charge of the massive national effort of zakat collection... From now on, I am personally willing to receive zakat payments made in the form of money orders from every single Muslim in the country.
~ Suharto
To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.
~ Alex Gibney
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.
~ Rashida Tlaib
Nowadays a long Romantic tradition has caused us to think of poets as private dreamers, ill-adapted to social intercourse and the horrors of a materialist world but thereby guardians of value and the messengers of our common soul. In 1711 François senior would have viewed a young poet as a modern parent might view an aspirant television celebrity.
~ Roger Pearson
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
~ Roland Joffe
I don't like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook.
~ Romain Gary
Prejudice and private interest will be antagonists too powerful for public spirit and public good.
~ Ron Chernow
When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
~ Ron Kincaid