Quotes about Public figure

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.

New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.

I will be the happiest if TikTok is banned. They mock someone like me most on that platform.

Here is the central paradox: the pastor is a public figure who must make himself nothing, who must speak not to attract attention to himself but rather to point away from himself—unlike most contemporary celebrities. The pastor must make truth claims to win people not to his own way of thinking but to God's way. The pastor must succeed, not by increasing his own social status but, if need be, by decreasing 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 know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.