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There’s still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.
In many competitive worlds like luxury, things are done behind closed doors and with secrecy, so one day I had a eureka moment: for one weekend we show everything, full transparency, forget about business or commerce and showcase our work.
In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don’t ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
I’m not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine’s Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.
I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won’t. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The ‘art’ will suffer.
I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.
In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
If you were there behind every family’s closed doors, everyone’s a little wacko. Chances are that your family is no weirder than the next family or than the other girl at school’s family. Everyone can be quirky at times, and I embrace that, personally.
We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.
No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.
I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure, I’m a hell-raiser.
After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats – on visits to places that have included some of the world’s most repressive nations – I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.
The only time I’m not Hulk Hogan is when I’m behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can’t just say ‘hello’ like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
I’ve always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy – that’s why I read: because I want to know other people’s secrets.
That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
The prospect of being able to run a race behind closed doors is absolutely feasible.
As Chloe, I can honestly say I’ve never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of ‘open government’; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors – whether it’s on the Hill or in the White House – people all find intriguing.
Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It’s time for a governor who believes that you don’t have to buy a place in Texas’ future. It’s time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we’re looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors – can you imagine wearing those corsets?
I do know I’ve lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I’m not going to rot away behind closed doors.
I just kind of keep doing what I’m doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I’d like to keep it.
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don’t know. It’s like Baltimore or something. I don’t know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors – that’s life.
My mom was a painter and loves to sing behind closed doors.
Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors – that there is racism in baseball.
I don’t see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.
Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.
I’ll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don’t get hired for things.
As a historian, I’m sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they’re really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.
You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
My experience – I’ll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don’t get hired for something, but I’ve never had an experience that made me feel any less than.
Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.
From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It’s just behind closed doors.
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
You never know what’s really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn’t always what it seems.
You never know what goes on behind closed doors.