Top 100 Quotes About Anonymity
#1. I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.
Johnny Depp
#3. It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.
Jonathan King
#4. Serial killers may stand apart from society, but they are able to blend in even better than 'normal' people as they are camoflaged in contemporary anonymity.
Kurt Jensen
#5. This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
Carroll Quigley
#6. Of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s.
Donna Tartt
#7. It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
J.D. Salinger
#8. Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.
Lawrence Block
#10. Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow
#11. I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
Elena Ferrante
#13. The anonymity of the internet is a dangerous but powerful thing - to any fool who will listen.
P.S. Bartlett
#14. Being in the country is like being in a dream - one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all - that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
Meia Geddes
#16. Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
Calista Flockhart
#17. If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
Emmuska Orczy
#18. I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
Rachel Kushner
#19. For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term
Emily Thorne
#20. What difference does it make after all?
anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
Jack Kerouac
#21. Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.
Tyler Perry
#23. I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.
Kiki Smith
#24. She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
Alice Sebold
#25. I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Todd Solondz
#26. Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
Gary Oldman
#27. But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
Todd Solondz
#28. I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
John Hodgman
#29. One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.
Quentin L. Cook
#30. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
Anna Maria Chavez
#31. On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
Sharon Bolton
#32. The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?
Susan Schussler
#33. No matter how many warnings are posted, no one actually believes that online behavior can hurt their lives or the lives of others. Especially if there is a cloak of anonymity. Everyone feels shielded, safe, and invincible.
Joelle Charbonneau
#34. I'm tired of the anonymity of being an unpublished author. I crave the anonymity of being self-published.
Tristan Durie
#35. I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford
#36. Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
Bob Woodward
#38. I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try to offer clothes that allow that. I myself do not like being defined so readily, so I imagine that she is similar?
Phoebe Philo
#39. I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.
Anne Robinson
#40. Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#41. I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies
#42. I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
Paula Cole
#43. One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.
Shane McAnally
#44. Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
Joel Edgerton
#45. I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
Martha Graham
#46. I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.
Ani DiFranco
#47. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph Campbell
#48. Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home.
Antonia Young
#49. I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.
Chris Riddell
#50. There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
John Knowles
#51. Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.
William E. Jefferson
#52. I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
Ringo Starr
#53. 'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.
Adam Richman
#54. I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.
Joe Johnston
#55. I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
Chris Pine
#56. 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 to the Bible.
Joe Klein
#57. With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
Sienna Miller
#58. Anonymity may be a powerful drug; it is as well we do not taste too much of it in our daily lives.
Stephanie Barron
#59. I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.
Chris Evans
#60. As a matter of fact, great passions remain unknown, they erade in the anonymity.
Mihail Drumes
#61. But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity. Look, we live in a world where one is unsafe in various ways because of the Internet. Anything can be said. Someone can look at your house from space.
William Monahan
#62. She spent the rest of the way home despising New York: anonymity, in virtuous terror; and the squeaking drainpipe, all-night light, ceaseless footfall, subway corridor, numbered door (3C).
('Master Misery')
Truman Capote
#63. You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.
Charles Baxter
#65. Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#66. I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.
Mia Wasikowska
#67. Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
Elena Ferrante
#68. Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.
Mal Fletcher
#69. The twilight hour comes: even my grief is swept away by the anonymity of life.
Montri Umavijani
#70. I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.
Trevor Noah
#71. It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.
Vint Cerf
#72. For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.
Ben Whishaw
#73. Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.
Kathy Reichs
#74. I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
Julie Walters
#75. The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
Margaret Mead
#76. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
Wole Soyinka
#77. In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
Yann Martel
#78. Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
Evgeny Morozov
#79. Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.
Emmuska Orczy
#80. The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#81. We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
#82. The anonymity of body parts facilitates the necessary dissociations of cadaveric research: This is not a person. This is just tissue. It has no feelings, and no one has feelings for it. It's okay to do things to it which, were it a sentient being, would constitute torture.
Mary Roach
#83. I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.
Denis O'Hare
#84. I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.
Dakota Johnson
#85. There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
Evangeline Lilly
#86. I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.
Jordana Brewster
#87. That's why when Peter started talking to me in homeroom this morning, i soaked up his attention like a doughnut dipped in coffee. The fact that his comments have left me soggy and wilted doesn't matter. That's the price you pay when you withdraw to the safety of anonymity
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#88. Whether I'm working a street corner or a market stall, well, that's none of their business unless they're buying. The anonymity is comfortable, like going around draped in magic, hidden from view.
Cat Hellisen
#89. I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
Hugh Jackman
#90. I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Kurt Cobain
#91. For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
Annie Jacobsen
#92. Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
Natalie Dormer
#93. I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.
Christopher Hitchens
#94. In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.
Kim Young-ha
#95. The totalitarian state lets its opponents disappear in silent anonymity. It is certain that anyone who had dared to suffer death rahter than silently tolerate the crime would have sacrificied his life in vain.
Hannah Arendt
#96. It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.
Melanie Fiona
#97. I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.
Nolan North
#98. The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer
#99. Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.
Asne Seierstad
#100. Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.
Jon Foreman
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