#anonymous

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #being happy #benefits #duty #happy

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#case #confidential #confidentiality #continue #domain

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #competition #completely #different #different people

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#anonymous #being #common #control #experience

Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. (Narcotics Anonymous Book/page 33) ↗

— Narcotics Anonymous

#fear-of-unknown #narcotics-anonymous #resentment #anger

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience. ↗

— Michael Bay

#audience #critics #dark #done #four

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#anonymous #else #had #i #needed

I can walk around relatively anonymously. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#around #i #i can #relatively #walk

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately