Privacy Quotes · Page 21

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

— Stephen Hawking

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

— Dorothy Kilgallen

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

— Caitlin Moran

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

— J. D. Salinger

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

— Adam Cohen

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own…

— Barbara Boxer

As much as we're out here performing, I think it's necessary that we have our times of privacy as well when things…

— Bryson DeChambeau

I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.

— Christoph Waltz

Having our privacy exposed is particularly crushing for the British - a nation for whom the phrase: 'How are you?' really means:…

— Frankie Boyle

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They…

— Al Franken

Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other…

— Nick Harkaway

It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of…

— Michael O'Rielly

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To…

— Hilaire Belloc

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. I've been asked for autographs while I've been doing…

— Rick Astley

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the…

— George Orwell

If hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she…

— Tim Cook

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room…

— Anne Rice

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen's Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours…

— Lisa Ann Sandell

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in…

— James Madison

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most…

— Robert Fulghum

We cannot deny that our decision today will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. Cell phones…

— John Roberts

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man…

— Jean Marzollo

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

— Tim Cook

“I'm not the sort that tells tales about what other people do', he said”

— Fredrik Backman

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

— Gisele Bundchen

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

— Richard M. Nixon

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

There's a special place in hell for people who leave my room and don't close the door.

— Anonymous

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of…

— Edmund Leach

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

— Louis Kronenberger

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

— Jeff Beck

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

— Calvin Klein

I don't like people recognizing me all around the world. I really don't like that, as it's breach of my privacy.

— Radhika Apte

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

— Barbra Streisand

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be…

— Eric Schmidt

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not…

— Kevin Spacey

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

— Melissa Bean