I Need Privacy Quotes

#1. I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

Virginia Woolf

#2. I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Jim Carrey

#3. William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-

Garth Risk Hallberg

#4. If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. Darrak"- she let out a shuddery breath-"I need my privacy."
"That's going to be difficult. For obvious reasons

Michelle Rowen

#6. When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Brandy Norwood

#7. 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

#8. Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

Laura Poitras

#9. To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

Herbert Gold

#10. It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.

Jeremy Lin

#11. On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#12. Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

Bill Gates

#13. We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#14. I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#15. I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.

Rand Paul

#16. I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

Nancy Gibbs

#17. I guess you need your privacy if you've got the Tinder Train rolling in every night.

R.S. Grey

#18. We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

Evgeny Morozov

#19. You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.

Britney Spears

#20. And tonight - Geryon? You okay?
Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight - ?
Why do you have your jacket over your head?
...
Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimes
I need a little privacy.

Anne Carson

#21. One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

Barack Obama

#22. New Rule: You don't need a paper shredder. I've seen your mail
it's not that interesting. What are you worried about, that the magazine from the auto club might fall into the wrong hands? I hate to break it to you 007, but the Victoria's Secret catalog isn't actually a secret.

Bill Maher

#23. To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes De Mille

#24. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#25. I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

John Lee Mahin