Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Secrets Quotes from famous persons: Kevin Bacon, Jason Robert Brown, Hector Elizondo, Seymour Hersh, Jonathan Franklin. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Secrets Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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Most of the important secrets that I’ve known about, the real secrets that are known about aren’t worth publishing.
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I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
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The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
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We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas – things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
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We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.
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I’ve made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I’m no longer interested in that subject – which is a wonderful relief.
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I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western – the drifter who comes into town with secrets – I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.
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Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.
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Beauty secrets are meant to be shared with the world!
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It is up to the government to keep the government’s secrets.
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You know the expression, ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets?’ I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.
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Intimacy, in my opinion, is when you are vulnerable with someone, you share secrets, are open to love, and you take care of their emotional well-being.
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I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.
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The nature of Scandinavians is that they don’t talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
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I don’t have any secrets; I don’t believe in secrets.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.
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I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we’ve been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.
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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
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Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that’s what great drama, whether it’s the movies or the theater, that’s what it shows.
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I am very good at keeping secrets, except when I am drunk, when I will tell you absolutely anything.
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I’m good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.
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One of the secrets of Fox News‘ outsized success – it’s the most profitable news organisation in the U.S. and, quite likely, the world – is that it saw the country full of liberal occupiers and Fox News’ viewers as the heroic resistance.
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We cannot expect to keep our nation‘s secrets secure – or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies – if proper classification of our country’s secrets is as likely as a coin flip.
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I love playing characters that have secrets.
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One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
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What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.
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This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets – take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you’re making a fried egg and just before it’s done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.
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I’m ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
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What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.
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When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it’s a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.
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Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn’t feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.
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I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
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I’ve always been really interested in secrets – how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.
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I was never any good at keeping secrets.
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer’s life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it’s easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.
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We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can’t read it three times and say, ‘OK, I got it. I know what’s happening.’
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That’s the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.
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I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.
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I’m not good at keeping secrets.
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I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that’s what keeps life – and characters – interesting. That’s one of the things that I’m drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.
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Xi agreed to the American definition of legitimate espionage. In other words, you don’t use the power of the state to steal secrets for profit.
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I was taught you don’t tell your secrets to strangers – certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
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I really like knowing secrets, and once I do know that secret, I can keep it. But if I’m on the outside and I don’t know the secret, that’s a different story. I will try with all my power to get the secret out of the person who knows.
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Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.
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I’m just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don’t have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.
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One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.
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Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God’s best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know – the God of the universe – already knows.
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One of the secrets is, for us, we pick our demographic. If other demographics want to like it, then by all means. But essentially, we’re making music for the party, for the club.
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Ooh, it’s too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets – although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
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I don’t keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.
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I really don’t feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
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There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it’s just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they’ve said.
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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If Wikileaks didn’t resolve that question for folks – at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We’re living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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It wasn’t very long ago when you wouldn’t even think about there being health information on the smartphone. There’s financial information. There’s your conversations; there’s business secrets. There’s probably more information about you on here than exists in your home.
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Through the eight books in ‘The Treasure Chest‘ series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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I’m terrible at keeping secrets.
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And personally, one of the secrets I guess you can say with success on HGTV, for not only myself and a lot of other individuals who have shows, is that we truly do love what we do. We’re passionate about real estate. We love design. We love seeing transformations. We love working with our hands.
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In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife‘s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
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I live my life online: I don’t have many secrets.
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I like there to be some secrets.
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When I was young, I went with my mum to see some really random independent films, which really spoke to me: ‘My Beautiful Laundrette,’ ‘Secrets and Lies’… It wasn’t all arthouse, though!
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I’m attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I’m not interested in who’s going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I think everything should be governed by law. We don’t want to keep secrets anymore.
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I don’t know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.
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I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets of life in psychology, although its Freudian variety left me cold. The id never made much sense to me.
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One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets – people who’ve come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don’t want to think about, or can’t say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act.
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We all have secrets. We’ve all kept secrets. We’ve had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.
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I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they’re going to harm you in some way. So if you don’t have any secrets, then there’s no way anyone can harm you.
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There are things I’ve done in the past I’m not proud of – and I could talk about them if I wanted to – but I don’t reveal my secrets… I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don’t think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
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I’m good at keeping secrets.
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
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You’re as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it’s just… it’s been really healing, and I’ve found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.
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We keep secrets from people that we love because we’re afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we’re afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we’re afraid of what is, and what can’t be.
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‘Ready Player One’ has it all – nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary. The novel follows Wade Watts through the virtual reality world, the OASIS, and on a quest to uncover and unlock the secrets buried deep inside.
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Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
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In those days secrets were well kept.
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I read so much about men who aren’t what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.
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People want to see other’s secrets and get a peek into their lives.
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Apprentice is the beginner – the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
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I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‘Secrets’ and ‘Rockin’,’ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‘Secrets,’ I’m a different person.
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I really don’t have any secrets. I’ve never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
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There are so many secrets in our world.
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I’m not an author, but as a songwriter, I’m afforded this kind of luxurious ambiguity in songs of being able to confess the secrets of my relationships with people and face basically no consequences, or ask for no approval or permission.
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‘Social engineering,’ the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
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Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
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Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
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The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.
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The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who’s seen my work knows everything about me.
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We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.
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I can’t keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it’s about myself, I’m like, ‘blah blah blah blah.’
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It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America’s most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.
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I think it’s always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can’t express, you can’t tell them, because it’s almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don’t fully understand it.
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I don’t reveal family secrets.
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Luckily, my wife is amazing. She’s one of the few people in my life I’m completely honest with. I’ve told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There’s no secrets at all.
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You don’t have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren’t any hidden secrets or things that you’re supposed to understand.
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‘Sinskari’ is an adult chat show, which will include questions about their deep dark secrets. Some dialogues may have to be beeped out.
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After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?
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We don’t want to keep secrets anymore.
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I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
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The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.
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I want to pass on my secrets to people who are going to say, ‘I have realised that I love baking, and now I’m going to make my bread and sell it at the local farmers‘ market,’ or who might say, ‘I am going to use the local Post Office in our village to sell my cakes.’ I want to give them that little bit of fire.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that’s overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there’s a certain group of individuals, in which I am included, who are very tight about secrets and don’t share them with anyone.
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I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
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All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice – the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows – awaits us within ourselves.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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One of the secrets of ‘A Christmas Story’ is that it’s a relatable story. They feel like our family.
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I’m not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that’s why no one ever tells me things.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else’s hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Everybody has secrets.
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Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious – from saving Africa‘s elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.
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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don’t give their secrets to journalists for free.
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I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.
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In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming, personal, compelling and honest I’ve ever dealt with.
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When I was about, I’d say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets… So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
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I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I’m grateful, obviously. But I don’t gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
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We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he’s also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
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I’m sure Zoe Ball and Donna Air, and Nic and Nat Appleton – we’ll go to the grave with our ’90s secrets.
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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh.
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There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
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Keeping secrets is hard.
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I value my ability to keep state secrets.
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Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.
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I like to feel the burn of the audience‘s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
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And I don’t think I’m giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
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The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
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I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets… because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
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Alec isn’t good at keeping secrets from me! He told me beforehand that he was going to propose. I really love that about him, that we have no secrets.
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I like to go to Vicky Secrets and La Perla because I like lace and bikinis.
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Don’t invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don’t have room for that secret. I’ve got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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It’s one of those secrets that not a lot of politicians realize: The Internet is not a 10th-tier policy issue. It’s not an add-on policy. It’s something that affects everybody’s life.
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I’m actually really good at keeping secrets.
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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history – no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.
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We don’t have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
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We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal’s secret.
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I have no shame – all my secrets are out there.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments.
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The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you’re all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you’re going to be exposed.
