Quotes About Privacy

I've learned that some things are almost impossible to talk about because they're things no one wants to know. ? ? ? Not even me.

Ada, please," she said, looking up, "I am not on exhibit in a zoo.

Why couldn't they leave him alone? Why couldn't every single one of them without exception whatsoever just go right away from where he was and leave him alone?

Kat was my best friend and my family for ten whole years, but I don't think I ever spoke her name in front of my parents. She belonged to my world, not theirs. She was none of Grant and Irene's business.

Instinctively she knew that talking, talking, talking kept people from probing, probing, probing. The more she seemed to reveal about herself, the more she could hide, and still appear to be open and forthcoming.

Apart from social media, the fences around our homes are a great cause of social isolation.

Sei por experiência que se deve evitar descobrir quem deseja manter-se escondido.

Imagine North Korea in 2030, when every citizen has to wear a biometric bracelet 24 hours a day. If you listen to a speech by the Great Leader and the bracelet picks up the tell-tale signs of anger, you are done for.

We will see how contact tracing has an unequalled capacity and a quasi-essential place in the armoury needed to combat COVID-19, while at the same time being positioned to become an enabler of mass surveillance.

her true name is never spoken aloud.

I have to believe that Adam was not the intended recipient of that hideous, disgusting picture. How do gynecologists do it all day, look between the legs of their patients and not just…just throw up?

I opened the night table drawer and closed it fast. Okay, then. Mom still had womanly needs. Good for her. I'd get some eye bleach and erase that memory, stat.

We can't have all these people seeing that thing on your wrist, can we?

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

lema epicúreo: láthe biósas, «oculta tu vivir» o «vive sin ser notado».

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

What a relief to be away from the stares of those extraordinary beings!