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Quotes About Privacy

If you love someone your freedom is curtailed, if you love someone you give up much of your privacy, if you love someone you are not merely one person but half of a couple, to think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Doc, I need to talk to my detective alone for a few minutes." Charleston smiled at the doctor as he said it, but it didn't quite reach his eyes. They showed that he was smiling for social convention and nothing else
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Bogie did not believe in in-laws living with husband and wife, and he didn't believe in anyone dropping in, relatives, even mothers, included. His rule was absolute: Call before and wait for an invitation. His home was sacred, and privacy to be respected.
~ Lauren Bacall
If one thing is a secret, everything is
~ Lauren Fox
Word of advice, sister mine. If you want to keep your papers private, don't write 'Private' on the cover. It set the mater right off. It was all I could do to stop her sniffing around like some great sniffing thing.
~ Lauren Willig
You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish.
~ Laurence Shames
It's none of your business what I'm aware of.
~ Laurence Shames
I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
My earbuds were in, but I wasn't playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
So why does everyone make such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
~ Laurie Lee
That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea.
~ Laurie Lindeen
A drink? No, whatever for? He used the downstairs lavatory because one really didn't want the nuisance of a full bladder in media res, poured himself a glass of Evian water because one didn't want a dry mouth, either, and mounted the stairs to the master bedroom.
~ Lawrence Block
All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
~ Tab Hunter
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
~ Stephen Hawking
Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.
~ Dave Eggers, The Circle
There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.
~ Alexander Ferrick, HACK3R
You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
~ Michel Foucault
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
~ Michel Foucault
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.
~ zola emile ii