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Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.
Nancy Pelosi / Minority Leader Of The United States House Of Representatives
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I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.
John Malkovich / Actor
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I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.
John Bercow / Speaker Of The House Of Commons
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It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
Robert Bourassa / Politician
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
Kapil Sibal /
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Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
Nicholas Kristof /
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With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
Joaquin Phoenix / Actor
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In reading celebrities, public figures, their lives are on Google! So, obviously, there's information about them.
Tyler Henry /
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When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
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I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.
Ann Widdecombe / British Politician
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
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I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.
Roxane Gay / Writer
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
William J. Mann /
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal / Writer
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I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
Leander Paes /
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All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.
Ann Widdecombe / British Politician
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What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.
Catherine Oxenberg /
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I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
Doris Kearns Goodwin / Historian
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Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it.
Donna Brazile / Author
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Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.
David Carr / Writer
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I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.
Adam Lashinsky /
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My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.
David Blunkett / British Politician
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Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow / Musician
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People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.
Jeff Ross / Stand-Up Comedian
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Brands, musicians, and public figures were among the first to embrace video on 'Instagram', and we've been impressed with how brands have extended their reach with video ads.
Kevin Systrom / Entrepreneur
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Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and complex systems do not respond to pressure in linear ways.
George Monbiot / Writer
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You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
Sydney Schanberg / Journalist
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I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
Chesley Sullenberger / Aviator
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We enjoy a growing awareness and literacy around the symptoms of and remedies for mental illness. Thanks to brave public figures and persistent campaigners, much of the ignorance and stigma has been reduced.
Luciana Berger /
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The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.
Bret Stephens / Journalist
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Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.
Michael Hastings / Journalist
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There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
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There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
Robert Teeter /
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Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
Pete Hamill / Journalist
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
Langston Hughes / Poet
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More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
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We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
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The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?
Kevin Hassett /
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Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
Kay Redfield Jamison / Psychologist
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When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?
Margaret Cho / Comedian
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