Quotes About Private

I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public.

The only contribution of any value a private citizen can make towards the elucidation of a National upheaval is to record his own sensations.

I think it's a hesitant book and at the same time bold. A text both private and public. On the one hand it springs from my other books. The themes, ultimately, are unchanged: identity, alienation, belonging. But the wrapping, the contents, the body and soul are transfigured.

Boeken zijn de beste middelen - privé, discreet, betrouwbaar - om over de werkelijkheid heen te stappen.

to every single person, two names. In Bengali the word for pet name is daknam, meaning, literally, the name by which one is called, by friends, family, and other intimates, at home and in other private, unguarded moments. Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

I libri sono i mezzi migliori - privati, discreti, affidabili - per scavalcare la realtà.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

I've always been into subcultures. In the '50s and '60s, what Pierre Molinier was doing was super subculture - he was taking self-portraits, it was very private, very intimate. I think that's actually how I started my drag - in my bedroom, taking MacBook self-portraits.

Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence.

Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

Cierto es que este mal no era homogéneo, de otra manera la vida no hubiera sido posible: yo seguía encontrándome con gente maravillosa, o me aprovechaba de gestos maravillosos de quienes no siempre los tenían. En ausencia de una vida pública decente, la vida privada latía a plenitud (aun cuando en esos momentos yo no me daba cuenta de ello): los amores, las amistades, las pasiones intelectuales o artísticas, eran intensos

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the State forever separate.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school...Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.