Anonymity Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Hate, Odd, Notice Me

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.

  Debra Monroe

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the beauty of chat rooms is that you can have your anonymity of course, and you can choose to be raunchy and sexy and bold. Or you can actually go into certain chat rooms and maybe have an incredibly soulful, meaningful conversation that will change your life or change the other person's life.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Meaningful, Sexy, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.

  James Sallis

  Sight, Cities, Two

  James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books

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• Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

  Erwin McManus

  Names, Giving, Pay

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• George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.

  Christopher Nolan

  Photography, Editing, Machines

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• Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

  Joyce Johnson

  People, Healthy, Privacy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'

  Jim Goad

  Men, Safety, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

  Dee Rees

  Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Responsibility, Editors, Two

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Beer, Talking

  Interview With Veronica Bond, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

  Andrea Romano

  People, Good Work, Animation

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.

  John Larroquette

  Wall, Speak Your Mind, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Littles, Would Be

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Jeans, Focus, Missing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There isn't one way of doing anything. I'm not saying everywhere online should be anonymous, nor do I think everywhere should use read-ID. I just want options! And for people to understand how valuable anonymity can be, and why it's worth protecting.

  Christopher Poole

  Thinking, People, Use

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.

  Zicheng Hong

  Real, People, Taoism

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• I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

  John Hodgman

  Radio, Used, Figures

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 27, 2013.

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• Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Kindness, Compassion, Practice

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Men, May, Pages

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• There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

  Maude Meagher

  Blessing, Clothes, Special

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

  Sheryl Crow

  Video, Assault

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• If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Thinking, Strange Places

  Source: collider.com

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• As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.

  John D. MacDonald

  Angel, Air, Class

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