Quotes About Secrecy

The secret is there is no secret. That is what we really wish to keep from our kids, and its suppression is the true collusion of adulthood, the pact we make, the Talmud we protect.

In truth, we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. That is what we really wish to keep from our kids, and its suppression is the true collusion of adulthood, the pact we make, the Talmud we protect.

La ocultación podía ser sinónimo de poder. Como andar por la casa con un revólver cargado.

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy - the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy—the fact that other people simply weren't interested.

You must work with the assumption that every teenager secretly worries that she's crazy.

Yes, I see, Mr Worsley. The love that shall not speak its name." "Well, yes, something like that. Something illicit, dangerous, yet also something beautiful, something... grand. A grand love, one that has brought both joy and heartache. Yes?

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

I've been in very protective shows: 'How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Vampire Diaries,' and even 'Gracepoint' and 'Supernatural.' They really protect their stories because they don't want any leaks.

Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life - I think vampires are really sexy because there's so much that you don't know about them. There's a lot of mystery.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

At various times in my undercover career I had either a full beard, a short-cropped beard, Fu Manchu, a plain simple moustache or just a goatee. We did that - generally we would have a look that we would maintain for anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money to put their funds in offshore tax havens like Panama, which is notoriously secretive.

If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.

Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys' club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That's good for the masons themselves, but it's our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that's a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, 'the brotherhood,' remain anonymous.

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.

There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle.

When I'm being driven to the reading, my mom doesn't know who the client is. My assistant, Charlie, does not know who the client is. We follow a lead vehicle... so we don't know where we're going.

There is nothing inevitable about this secret offshore world. It is not a fact of nature: Our laws created tax havens, and our laws can also end them. We could forbid Goldman Sachs from owning opaque offshore vehicles. We could prevent companies such as Cadre from accepting anonymous investments.