Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Privacy Quotes
ArtPrivacyPublic LifeSelf-DisciplineSuccess In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
DiscretionFriendshipPrivacy A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Celebrity CultureMedia InfluencePrivacyPublic IntrusionSociety The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
British CultureCommunicationPrivacyPrivacy InvasionSocial Norms Having our privacy exposed is particularly crushing for the British - a nation for whom the phrase: 'How are you?' really means: 'Please say one word, then leave me alone.'
Digital AgeFree SpeechPrivacySurveillance There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
ExploitationIntrusionMisuse of TechnologyPrivacySpam SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
DefensePrivacySarcasm Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
DetachmentFocusMediaMusicPrivacy No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
BoundariesPersonal GrowthPrivacySelf-awarenessWisdom The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
AppreciationConsequenceEssentialPrivacyValue Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
Medical EthicsPrivacy I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.
Emotional SupportFamilyPrivacyTrustVulnerability It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Privacy Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
Home LifeLow-KeyPrivacySolitude I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.
AmericansHumorPresidentsPrivacyRespect There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
AutonomyHealthLegal RightsPrivacyReproductive Rights The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
BoundariesCreativityIdentityPrivacySelf-Expression My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
ConversationIntrusionPrivacyTechnology Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
PaparazziPrivacySocial Circles I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
Behavioral EconomicsPrivacyRisk PerceptionSecurityTrust Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
AutonomyIntimacyPersonal SpacePrivacyTrust Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Digital AgePrivacyRegulation Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.
FameHumilityImaginationIndividualityPrivacy I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
AuthenticityIntroversionPrivacy I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
Individual RightsPrivacySafetySociety As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
AuthenticityExpressionPrivacySimplicitySubtlety I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
AdaptationIdentityParentingPrivacy My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.
