By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it’s very rare that you see it private.
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries.
I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can’t buy things, the economy doesn’t grow. If the economy doesn’t grow, we don’t put Americans to work.
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono – three really private people, but when they’re on stage or when they’re singing, they let go like no one else.
I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
I just wanted to have a private life.
When I am out and about I feel watched. It’s become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
You will see more fluctuation, I believe, in the private cryptocurrency rather than the fiat.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
No man should be in public office who can’t make more money in private life.
Ivanka was asking her work contacts at the White House to write to her at her private email – the exact offense the Trumps had lambasted Hillary Clinton for during the general election. Would anyone chant ‘Lock her up!’ about Ivanka’s private server? Doubtful.
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It’s hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
In the ’70s and ’80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
I don’t think that there are very many good writers who don’t live without a sense of tension. If they haven’t got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
My father was an autodidact. It wasn’t a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn’t allowed to go.
Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
For private use, filesharing and copying should be legal.
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
I’m actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I’m at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
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.
I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from ‘Saving Private Ryan.’
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It’s not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
You can look at that by comparing Medicare’s growth rates to the private insurance world, to the other Federal programs that we run, by looking at the billions of dollars, not millions but billions of dollars, we waste every year.
I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first.
If you don’t understand viruses, phishing, and similar threats, you become more susceptible to them. If you don’t know how social networks leak information that you thought was private, you’re likely to reveal much more than you realize.
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it’s ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we’ve done many great things, especially since 9/11.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.
