Win The Life

Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. - Marilyn Monroe

 

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. - Herbert Clark Hoover

 

A career is born in public, talent in privacy. - Marilyn Monroe

 

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy. - Cicero [Marcus Tullius Cicero]

 

I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning

 

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

 

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. - Marshall McLuhan

 

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.-Michelle Pfeiffer

 

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.-David Horowitz

 

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.-Michelle Obama

 

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.-John Gilmore

 

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.-Sarah Chalke

 

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.-Bram Cohen

 

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.-Ron Paul

 

I believe in a zone of privacy.-Hillary Clinton

 

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.-Dave Reichert

 

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.-Phil Crane

 

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.-Larry Niven

 

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

 

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.-Tom Bergeron

 

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.-Sarah Chalke

 

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.-Robert Browning

 

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.-Mario Vazquez

 

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.-Princess Margaret

 

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.-Julie Andrews

 

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.-Sandra Cisneros

 

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.-John Poindexter

 

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.-Dirk Bogarde

 

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.-Sarah McLachlan

 

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.-Michael Hutchence

 

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.-Luke Ford

 

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.-Richard Perle

 

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.-Lisa Bonet

 

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.-James L. Brooks

 

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.-Roger Mudd

 

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.-John Ashcroft

 

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.-Mary Pickford

 

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.-Terry Fox

 

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.-Sara Paretsky

 

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?-Linda Tripp

 

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.-Samantha Mumba

 

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.-Alice Foote MacDougall

 

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.-Margaret Cho

 

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.-Marlon Brando

 

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.-Bruce Sterling

 

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

 

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.-Marshall McLuhan

 

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.-Bill Maher

 

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.-John Poindexter

 

To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.-Danny Sugerman

 

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.-Nancy Travis

 

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.-John Updike

 

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

 

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.-Bill McCollum

 

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.-Dorothy Denning

 

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.-Ron Lewis

 

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.-John Pistole

 

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.Steve Kanaly

 

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.-David Brin

 

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?-Linda Tripp

 

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.-Dorothy Denning

 

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.-John Barton

 

You already have zero privacy - get over it.-Scott McNealy

 

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.-Lisa Kudrow

 

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.-Tim McGraw

 

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.-Shawn Wayans

 

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.-Johnny Depp

 

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.-Isaac Yeffet

 

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.-Barbara Boxer

 

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.-John Perry Barlow

 

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.-Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.-Howard Berman

 

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.-Marquis de Sade

 

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

 

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.-Louis Freeh

 

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.-Andy Rooney

 

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.-Ruth Bader Ginsberg

 

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?-Anna Quindlen

 

The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.-William M. Daley

 

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.-Kathy Bates

 

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.-Michael Schiavo

 

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.-Harry A. Blackmun

 

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.-Charles Caleb Colton

 

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.-Jean Paul

 

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.-Justin Timberlake

 

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.-Herbert Hoover

 

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.-Antonin Scalia