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The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Thinking, Become

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Time, Government

I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia

Person, Reclusive

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Life, Help, Person

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann

Nature, Good, Opinion

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Rick Perry

Job, Country, American

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea Dworkin

Life, Love, Women

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
Catherine Deneuve

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
Catherine Deneuve

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
Suze Orman

Student, Costs, Avoided

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
Susan Orlean

Used, Making, Wild

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
Susan Orlean

Power, Yourself, Understand

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson

Sad, Lonely, Fashion

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

Act, Wants, Share

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
David Baldacci

Justice, Injustice, Lawyer

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.
Sienna Miller

Game, Made, Living

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
Samuel Alito

Against, Speech, Religious

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
Lena Dunham

Work, Parents, Everything

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
Lena Dunham

Children, Place, Keep

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.
Francesca Annis

Life, Find, Else

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis

Strong, Wife, Through

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
Francesca Annis

Life, Three, Million

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
Annie Lennox

Life, Living, Put

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox

Life, Work, Great

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman

Life, Faith, Religion

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Miguel de Cervantes

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
John Podhoretz

Power, Future, Stand

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen

War, Brain, Start

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
Sting

Work, Group, Both

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin

Time, Long, Real

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