Quotes About Privacy

I guarantee that at some point in your life, something you told someone not to tell anyone ever was told to many, many other people with that same instruction. If there's something you don't want anyone to know: Don't. Tell. Anyone.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Nunca se lo había explicado antes, no crea que por deslealtad, pero naturalmente uno no va a ponerse a explicarle a la gente que de cuando en cuando vomita un conejito. Como siempre me ha sucedido estando a solas, guardaba el hecho igual que se guardan tantas constancias de lo que acaece (o hace uno acaecer) en la privacía total.

me respondió con una de sus frases: todos tenemos tres vidas, la pública, la privada y la secreta, me dijo. Y no le faltaba razón.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

He cried often for his love of some girl or another. Cried in the bathroom, where nobody could hear him.

Was I really reading my roommate's journal behind his back? Of course I was.

This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.

Try as you might, nobody will ever truly know who you are. You're just somebody alone in a house with your thoughts and nothing else.

Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

The Chinese state is the majority shareholder in the Hangzhou firm Hikvision, which began life in a state research institute and is now the largest manufacturer of video surveillance systems in the world. Today, Hikvision cameras have been installed in more than 150 countries, where they identify faces and license plates, and send an automatic alert when a driver is seen texting at the wheel.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

They opt in to being tagged by their friends. That's a different thing to the police watching you at all times because you're a climate activist or a guy who goes to a mosque.

I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.

I don't do interviews.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

I find it very boring to keep on talking about myself! Which is why I find giving interviews also very boring.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.