Anonymous Quotes
255 quotes by 224 authors
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We really are All One....this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
— Bill Hicks
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
— William S. McFeely
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We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who make…
— Jonathan Ive
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations…
— Christopher Ricks
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The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement…
— Julian Schwinger
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Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.
— James Marcus Bach
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The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are…
— Philip Gourevitch
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It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's…
— Terry Richardson
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It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership.…
— Bill W.
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I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so…
— Kimbra
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain…
— Ben Bradlee
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Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They…
— Daniel Pauly
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What's unique about [4chan] is that it's anonymous, and it has no memory. There's no archive, there are no barriers, there's no registration. ... That's…
— Christopher Poole
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All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
— Heather Donahue
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As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief…
— Alexander Borodin
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its…
— Michael Leunig
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Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back…
— Joe Klein
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That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.
— Rumi
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The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a…
— Roger Scruton
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Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
— Joel C. Rosenberg
Who Wrote These Anonymous Quotes
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