Quotes About Anonymity

Anonymous is really just a name for someone who had something great to say, but was not famous enough for anyone to remember their real name.

The few, the proud, Anonymous!

Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

Sometimes, when you are in the public eye, you just really need to just be part of the crowd, and look at other people rather than other people look at you.

I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.

I won't name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don't want publicity.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that's the dream.

I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

That's it, you see. I am not a leader nor even a guide. A god. Remember that. I am quite different from leaders and guides. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world. My spirits dwell within me, answerable to my slightest summons.

The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we'd be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn't foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.

You live in an apartment in New York, and you think all the time about like, 'I don't even know who's living above me.' There are all these anonymous people in that window or that window or that window, and everybody has their own interesting life that I know nothing about.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.