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"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
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"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."

"You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game-you an look it up."

"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."

"The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government's overreaching power to shake down its subjects."

"Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files."

"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."

"When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often."
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"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."

"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."

"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."

"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art."

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
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