Famous Quotes & Sayings

While President Clinton wants to do anything he can to help his wife win re-election, the story is simply not true. The anonymous sources in this story are anonymous because they were wrong.

Todd Christensen

Who would want to play the position these days? In this era of self-promotion and TV highlight reels, the better a corner plays, the more anonymous he becomes. What's his reward for doing his job well? No one throws to his side.

We had lived in blissful anonymity until that story came out. There were photographers around the next day.

We received an anonymous email, we immediately looked into it, and when we saw some irregularities. We immediately contacted the Honolulu Police Department.

Aaron Peirsol

We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

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.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.

We have tried very hard to be out in the community and do more public education. Anonymous is exactly what it means.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

Mark Zuckerberg

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Terrorists are using the Internet in an extraordinary way. We will target Internet cafes because we realize terrorists are going to these cafes because they have guaranteed anonymity there,

Wayne Besen

The ex-gay ministries are very excited about this, ... An anonymous source tells me that James Dobson called Silo and signed him up for a zoological 'Love Won Out' tour.

Khaled Hosseini

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, visible institutions that engage the public are trusted more than remote and anonymous ones. Introducing community offender panels could provide an effective way of bringing the criminal justice system to the community.

JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.

Maria Bamford

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.

Jackie Speier

There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

Lesley Manville

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

Natsuo Kirino

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

The issue of privacy is a substantial one. People don't realize how much information has already been gathered about them. When you start seeing pop-up screens that say 'You bought boots at such-and-such a Web site, now check out our camping gear,' that will be distressing to a lot of people; they're going to look for some way to have anonymity online.

The issue is that the codes were attached to anonymous samples. That's where the system broke down.

The feeling was that losing anonymity was off-putting for someone who wouldn't know where they would be in 18 years' time.

There was an anonymous tip called into the Houston Police Department. The photo came into play because an associate of Potts' knew that to be his daughter. The woman he had this child with called him, and his daughter called him. She was mad at him because they were showing it on TV.

In larger stores and areas, there is more anonymity from customers. We try to take away as much as that (anonymity) as we can.

I know that someone knows where Laci is -- and I'm pleading with you, please, please let her come home to us. You can send an anonymous letter to the police department telling them where she is or make an anonymous call to the police tip line at 209-342-6166.

Joichi Ito

I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.

Charles Schumer

If you want to know the future in the black market of guns, it's the computer in your home, ... Under the anonymity of the Web, strangers meet on the Internet under aliases, discreetly bid for guns, and make the sale with no questions asked.

I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics, each identifying with and transmitting his experience to the next -- chain style. If each sufferer were to carry the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as Alcoholics Anonymous has since achieved.

Mark Ruffalo

I'm sacrificing part of my anonymity which I enjoy to have more options as far as what I can get off the ground. It's a give and take sort of thing.

I'm not sure what they expect to get out of this. If they expect to get out of it what people are doing on the Net, there are definitely more anonymous ways to do this.

David Stern

In the good old days, Chamberlain and Russell played in anonymity compared to Bird, Magic, Michael and Isiah. And even those guys played in less of a spotlight that our players today are playing in thanks to this saturated media environment.