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  • I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

    Dirty   School   Writing  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

    Past   Lessons   Print  
    "Brittany Murphy: 'Don't listen to' gossip" by Meriah Doty, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.
  • It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.

  • Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

    Song   Names   Knowing  
  • I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.

    Echoes   Squares   Years  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

    "Sex Scandals: Another Double-Standard" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2013.
  • There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

    Believe   Moving   Riding  
  • The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.301
  • The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

  • I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

    People   Doe   Needs  
  • Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

  • Not having a private life is hard.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

  • In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.

    Night   Brazil   Score  
  • For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

    Black   Strange   Young  
  • It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

  • No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

    Men   Office   Should  
  • The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

  • I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

    "‘Under My Skin’ Exclusive Interview w/ Lauren London". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. May 27, 2011.
  • If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

    Thinking   Years   Two  
    Source: collider.com
  • ... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

    Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.235
  • The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest in him. If pictures cannot be understood without knowing details of the artist's private life, then that is a reason for faulting them; major art, by definition, can stand independent of its maker.

    Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”
  • I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

  • I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

  • A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

    Mother   Children   Kids  
  • I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

    Hate   Reading   Avid  
    Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited
  • The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

    Home   Fate   Employment  
    Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge
  • Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

    Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology Press
  • John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

    Football   Names   Wife  
    "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.
  • The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

    Life   Negative   Reason  
    Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage
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