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I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

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• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Leak

• I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Secrets

• Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • House
  • Politics
  • Secrets

• After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • Right
  • Secrets

• I have no secrets.

  

  Larry David
  • Secrets

• Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Feel
  • Better

• I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • People
  • Think
  • Secrets

• There are few secrets in football. So execute.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Football
  • Secrets
  • Few

• Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Experience
  • Things

• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Space
  • Like
  • Ship

• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Secrets

• Sphinxes without secrets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Secrets
  • Sphinxes

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Intellect

• We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Universe
  • Week
  • Leak

• My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.

  

  Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
  • Road
  • Opportunities
  • Reaction

• The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Man

• I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Lunch
  • Wilder

• I can't stand family secrets. I think they're such a toxic thing and they always leak out.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Secrets
  • Toxic
  • Leak