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“The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.”

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Author:Bill Foley

“Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.”

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Author:T.I.

“I would tell anyone, pick the person you love the most, the musician, the actor, public figure, whatever, and watch a bunch of their interviews and find ones where they talk about all the times they've failed, all the times they weren't good enough, and watch those on the regular. It's a very unique type of inspiration. It's almost like spiritual jumper cables for your inner drive.”

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Author:Lilly Singh

“If anybody ever tries to do an investigative report on a journalist, much like the kind and the way a journalist would do on a public figure, have you ever seen a stuck pig? Because that's what the journalist looks like.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.”

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Author:Moby

“When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.”

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Author:Moby

“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.”

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Author:Moby

“I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'”

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Author:Moby

“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.”

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Author:Moby

“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.”

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Author:Moby

“I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.”

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Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!”

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Author:James Taylor

“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.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.”

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Author:Robert Winston

“When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“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?”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.”

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“I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.”

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Author:Liv Tyler

“I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.”

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Author:Jonathan Knight

“I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.”

“If you had been a public figure from the time you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, than maybe to you might value privacy above all else. I have given everything up there from the time that I was three-years old. That's reality show enough, don't you think?”

“I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.”

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Author:Robert Teeter

“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.”

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Author:Sheryl Crow

“Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.”

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Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.”

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Author:Jon Meacham

“After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.”

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“We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.”

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Author:Emilio Estefan

“My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top.”

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Author:Pattie Mallette

“Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.”

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Author:Joshua Lederberg

“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.”

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Author:Sydney Schanberg

“Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.”

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Author:Irwin Shaw

“In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.”

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Author:David Leavitt

“It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.”

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Author:Naomi Judd

“The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.”

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Author:Charles Colson

“At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?”

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Author:Tom Piazza

“One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.”

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Author:John MacLachlan Gray

“I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.”

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Author:Catherine Keener

“Anything you're interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.”

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Author:Jack Dorsey

“I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.”

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Author:Terrell Owens

“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.”

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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.”

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Author:John Bercow

“I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.”

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Author:Priyanka Chopra

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