Privacy Quotes

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.

I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.

None of you will ever know what I am thinking.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.