Quotes About Privacy

The various governments of various worlds, no matter how different, all agreed on one thing: people should not be able to disappear from the radar and stop being traced. Because that denied government's ability to identify troublemakers and rebels, criminals and those who simply wanted to be left alone. And that would not be permitted.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

accept what you've already learned: that your disability will come and go and you'll never control it completely. Educate yourself about it, become an expert manager, and use treatment whenever you think it's necessary and without regard to your yearnings to be normal. Fight the shame that comes with being ill by sharing as much with others as you think is appropriate according to your own standards of privacy, not the culture's stigma.

It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?" Dad. I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

The question of the right to privacy must be one of the defining issues of our time.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.