I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such.… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a… — Joan Claybrook Copy Share Image
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality. — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
“We all know Damian's big on secrecy. The man makes the CIA look like a gabfest. He is Mr Need-To-Know. As in,… — Tera Lynn Childs Copy Share Image
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