Quotes About Privacy

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and are known for living their lives in front of the world. How strange is that? The appeal makes sense to me - it's like 'The Truman Show,' getting a chance to peak into someone's bedroom or see the way someone fights with their husband.

But I leave the arena late in games specifically because I don't want anyone to see my psychology.

If you are interacting with anything on your phone or your computer, it is specifically designed to collect as much data about you as possible, so that that can then be monetized.

I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

I consider myself a private person most of the time so it's hard to perform in a very public situation and have to do... public appearances and speeches depending on what it is and what the situation is.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and none of the other Backstreet Boys live in Georgia. So a lot of times, when people come to my house they're like, 'Hey, is A.J. here?' Or, 'Is Kevin here?' Or, 'Is Nick in the bathroom?' People think we live together and we spend all the time in the world together, but we really don't.

If you're very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you'd rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

I am a very private person, so on my birthday too I will spend a cozy time with my family and a few close friends!

I don't seek the limelight. I'm perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.