Quotes About Anonymity

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

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.

For the man crucified on the crossed machine guns Without name, without resurrection, without stars, His dark head heavy with death and his flesh long sour With the smell of his many prisons -- John Smith, John Doe, John Nobody -- oh, crack your mind for his name!

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

Sin un científico no hay futuro. Los guapos y atractivos personajes pueden ganarse la admiración de la sociedad, pero todas las invenciones maravillosas relacionadas con el futuro son consecuencia del trabajo de científicos anónimos que no reciben por ello elogio alguno.

To be invisible is to be free.

The moment she removed his head from the body, she felt the strange and intoxicating touch of freedom. That anonymity of the body was a suddenly discovered paradise. With an odd delight, she expelled her wounded and too vigilant soul and was transformed into a simple body without past or memory, but all the more eager and receptive. She tenderly caressed Eva's face, while the headless body moved vigorously on top of her.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I

individuals so employed need almost never accept responsibility for their actions. They are protected and anonymous. Military secrecy makes the military the most difficult sector of any society for the citizens to monitor. If we do not know what they do, it is very hard for us to stop them.

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.

There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.

I wanted people to just accept the music for what it is without any judgement and being anonymous was the best way to do that.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.

Security doesn't know who us YouTubers are, but they know who Justin Bieber is.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.