Public Figure Quotes

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.
Richard M. Nixon

Lonely, Job, Public

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.
Kristen Stewart

Hard, Through, Tell

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
Patti Smith

Work, Good, Another

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

Forward, Able, Looking

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.
Joshua Lederberg

Important, Small, Keep

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

Love, Woman, Her

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

Great, Making, Public

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.
Terrell Owens

Family, May, Him

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
David Guterson

Change, Time, Words

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
Ryan White

Give, Support, Public

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.
Robert Teeter

Christmas, Alone, Country

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.
Naomi Judd

God, Others, Times

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Public, Fly, Figure

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.
Catherine Keener

Public, Sit, Places

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.
David Leavitt

Writing, Wanted, Point

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller

Become, Public, Fat

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.
Charles W. Colson

Impossible, Public, Almost

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