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Privacy Quotes
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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"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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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
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"Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can."
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"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."
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"When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around."
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"Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!"
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"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
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"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
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"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
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"It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter."
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"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."
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"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for."
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"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
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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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"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
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"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
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"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
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"I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged."
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"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
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"As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."
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"Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion."
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"The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera."
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"He didn't have regular email like everyone else. He couldn't afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world."
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"He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself."
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"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."
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