Quotes with private

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  • Bryant Gumbel I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bai Ling I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Virginia Woolf If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Mark Twain In his private heart no man much respects himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Diamond In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Horowitz In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Billie Holiday In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bill Clinton In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • C. L. R. James In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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