Quotes About Anonymity

Chi è che ha detto che le coincidenze sono solo il modo che Dio ha scelto per restare anonimo?

Quién dijo que la coincidencia es la manera que tiene Dios de permanecer anónimo?

It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts.

Tips for aliens in New York: Land anywhere, Central Park, anywhere. No one will care or indeed even notice.

My name is not important

It starts out young - you try not to be different just to survive - you try to be just like everyone else - anonymity becomes reflexive - and then one day you wake up and you've *become* all those other people - the others - the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what you really *are*. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

Ulick Norman Owen—Una Nancy Owen—each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!

I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

Head down, hoodie up, eyes on the ground. Be unimportant. Blend in.

The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a radical edge, creating an appetite to find places that are off the map and that are somehow secret, or at least have the power to surprise us.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don't even know what I do for a living, so the 'persona' thing doesn't amount to much.

We've been able to create those personalities that are not anonymous that can somehow support exposure but in a fictional way.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.

I always wander round thinking I'm anonymous. Maybe in my psyche I would like to be. But then you suddenly realise you're not.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.