John Kay Quotes

I became kind of a recluse. I was not overly cynical, but I was kind of protective of my privacy.

John Kay Steppenwolf

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

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Important
  • You
  • Privacy

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
  • Privacy

• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Privacy
  • Essential

• I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Television
  • Privacy

• It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

  

  Larry Page
  • Important
  • Security
  • Privacy

• I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Privacy
  • Passing
  • Fad

• The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Government
  • Privacy

• It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

  

  John Travolta
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Levels

• No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Doe
  • Politician

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

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Work
  • Celebrity
  • Privacy

• I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Kind
  • Recluse

• Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Internet
  • Social Media
  • Privacy

• Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • Dance
  • Privacy
  • Enterprise

• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • God
  • Together
  • Stop

• This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Numbers
  • Busy
  • Limits

• The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Sound
  • Influence
  • Hip Hop

• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Weakness
  • Involuntary

• Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• I became kind of a recluse. I was not overly cynical, but I was kind of protective of my privacy.

  

  John Kay Steppenwolf
  • Privacy
  • Protective
  • Recluse