Quotes About Privacy

Privacy is dead. We live in a world of instantaneous, globalised gossip. The idea that there is a 'private' sphere and a 'public' sphere for world leaders, politicians or anyone in the public eye is slowly disintegrating. The death of privacy will have a profound effect on who our leaders will be in the future.

I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is writing autobiographies, and that's one reason why I'm not going to do it. If young Posh Spice can write her autobiography, then I don't want to write one!

One of my least favorite things is having my full name called out at the pharmacy. I always try to cut them off before they can say 'Spielberg.'

While most of us have long understood that privacy is a fading commodity, something in human nature still expects that a phone call or email is a closed communication, and we tend to behave as though it is. That behaviour is what the electronic spies count upon, and want to preserve.

The money is decent, but I don't want to go on TV and spill my guts.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.

I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.

I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.

Man, I'm pretty spoiled in San Antonio. I don't do media every day.

I don't think of me as, quote, 'coming out,' because I was never 'in.' I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private life and remain as neutral as possible.

Mansa Musa never spoke in public, and whispered everything to an interpreter; he was also never allowed to be seen eating a meal.

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

I've had innumerable affairs. I've never spoken about any of my women.

I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.

I have not spoken about my personal life earlier and I choose to maintain that.

Yes, I've always been quiet about my personal life and I've never really spoken about what I was doing apart from work.

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.