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I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I’ve felt it since I’ve been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

I’m not in politics. I’m really not a public figure. But I’m trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

I’m now becoming a bit more cognizant of what’s going on and the responsibility of being a public figure and also being white and being in Hip-Hop.

When you are public figure, you’re an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people’s expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that’s above everything else. I think that applies whether you’re a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who’s in it.

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.

I don’t really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I’m a public 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.

Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, … preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

I think it’s basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there’s still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.

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

Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

Anything you’re interested in the world whether it be Charlie rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop, they’re on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

Once you’re a public figure, there’s a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

I don’t really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

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.

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures … and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it’s 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

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

I’m not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

I’ve dated attractive people and I don’t find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.