Kept Secrets Quotes - Page 2

• I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Secret, Should, Agree

  "Julian Assange & Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. July 26, 2010.

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• The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Believe, Hard Work

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• I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

  Colin Hanks

  Thinking, Knowing, Secret

  "Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks Team Up On-Screen". Parade interview, parade.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

  Anthony Zinni

  Thinking, Iraq, Secret

  60 Minutes Interview, May 21, 2004.

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• The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

  Tom Peters

  Home, Economy Today, Best Kept Secrets

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• Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept secret in the entire history of food.

  David Wolfe

  Loss, Nuts, Best Kept Secrets

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• The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

  Ramsey Clark

  People, Secret, United States

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• The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

  Harry Browne

  Best Kept Secrets, Investing, World

  Harry Browne (1999). “Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes”, p.145, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

  Adam Smith

  Secret, Register, Ought

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.755, Harriman House Limited

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

  Moses Finley

  Media, Leader, Political

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

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• We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Adversity, Government

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• It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

  Jimmy Reid

  Secret, Want, Doing Good

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

  Dan Farmer

  Ideas, Secret, Normal

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• Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

  Billy Crystal

  Wall, Awards, Best Kept Secrets

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• Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

  Jill Biden

  College, Best Kept Secrets, America

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Teaching, People

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• They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

  Robin Wasserman

  Best Friend, Goodbye, Mistake

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• How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Dragons, Secret

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Worry, Secret

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.239, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Fashion, Passion

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• It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Daughter, Mother, Sibling

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• How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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