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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.”

Ifs Wish Responsibility Figures Affected Relevant Private Life Public Figures

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.”

Ifs Men World Humans Made Soul Enough Used Spirit Strong Prayer Human Beings Common Exercise Men And Women Aim Strong Enough Private Life Neglected Our Prayers Common Man Answered Prayers

Author:Alexis Carrel

“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 States Reason Interest Particular Activity Negative Universal Contradiction Formal Private Life

Book:Early Writings

Source: Early Writings

“Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.”

Shows Funny Given Secret Television Private Life Television Shows Clamor

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.”

Ifs Ends Life Is Turns Individual Wealth Responsibility Media Property Driven Private Life Private Property Spectacles

Author:Terry Eagleton

“It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.”

Private Life Sinister

Author:MyAnna Buring

“Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.”

Should Brother Good Things Relevant Mum Private Life Your Brother Your Mum

Author:Keisha Castle-Hughes

“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.”

People Ifs Different Wanted Accepting Too Much Serious Needed Different Things Take Me Private Life Accept Me

Author:John Corbett

“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.”

People Thinking Pay Attention Excited Pay Attention Private Life

Author:Lily Collins

“I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.”

People Thinking Private Life

Author:Peter Carey

“We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.”

Should Mistake Making Mistakes Private Life We Make Mistakes

Author:David Dimbleby

“After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.”

Giving Real Difficult Acting Rich Giving Up Actresses Private Life Real Things Rich Life

Author:Jennifer Ehle

“Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.”

Looks Persons Everyday Private Life

Author:Namie Amuro

“It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.”

Needs Security Strange Connections Newspapers Revelations Private Life Seclusion

Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“I want to keep my private life private.”

Want Private Life

Author:Cathy Freeman

“The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“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.”

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Author:Tony Iommi

“The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.”

Ifs Doe Interest Protect Majority Tyranny Minorities Private Life Restriction Tyranny Of The Majority

Author:Phillip E. Johnson