Quotes About Anonymity

We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns. For some, however, this distance between oneself and one's self is never revealed; for others it is occasionally enlightened, to their horror or grief, by a flash without limits; but for still others this is the painful daily reality of life.

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We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I never had a desire to be famous.

I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.

My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my neighbours would testify - if I'd ever met them.

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

What was once an anonymous medium where anyone could be anyone," Eli Pariser wrote in 2011, "is now a tool for soliciting and analyzing our personal data.

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