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Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Italo Calvino

Public

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

Scott Caan

Fight

Public

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Richard E. Byrd

Progress

Public

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Earl Butz

Public

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

Octavia Butler

Public

Writing

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

Steve Burns

Public

Television

I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Leo Burnett