Privacy Quotes - Page 2

• I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Exploits, Personal Life, Values

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong you don't have anything to hide.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Healthy, The End Of The Day

  "Forget Hollywood: Ashton Kutcher is Silicon Valley's secret weapon". Details Interview, www.celebitchy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Exercise, Civilization, Seems

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.106, Spectra

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• We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

  William O. Douglas

  Law, Government, Secret

  "Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 12, 1966.

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• We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Where You Are, Knows

  "What's wrong with tech leaders?" By Norman Matloff, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2014.

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

  Andy Rooney

  Loneliness, Desire, Away From Each Other

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.129, PublicAffairs

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• My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

  Bill Gates

  Dark, Focus, Secret

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• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  Karin Slaughter

  Home, Trying, Fans

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• Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn't think that, they're crap. But I know I'm going to lose some of that and that's something I'll have to deal with.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Important, Deals

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

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• I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

  Phil Crane

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

  Kate Millett

  Taboo

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Blow, Tvs, Danger

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

  Roger Mudd

  Doe, Journalist, Acknowledge

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Naked, Goldfish, Modern

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• I really fight for my privacy.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Fighting

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• I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

  Norman Lamm

  Law, Way, Century

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• Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Aggravation, Sacred

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Invasion

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• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Freedom, Independent, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Hate, Home, Talking

  Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

  Erik Qualman

  Dying, Reputation

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Law, Usa

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  Andy Rooney

  Distance, Silence, Desire

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