Nicole Richie

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

American Actress

Melania Trump

I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I like everything sorted by colors, even the shoes. It's important to know exactly where everything is when you walk into the closet.

American First Lady

Randy Harrison

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

American Actor

John Lewis

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

American Politician

Jane Badler

I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

Gus Kenworthy

I think that being in the closet is really hard. It takes a toll on your mind. It takes a toll on you. I think it just makes every aspect of your life more difficult.

British Athlete

Jeanne Damas

I have a passion for sweaters. Besides jeans, they are the clothes I have the most of in my closet. I must have a hundred!

Author

Jonathan Groff

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

British Statesman

Nigel Hawthorne

My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen.

English Actor

Used for spaces specifically for keeping things organized and out of sight.

Storing Items

A personal area to keep items you do not want to display.

Private Space

Closets can range from small nooks to large walk-in spaces.

Variety of Sizes

Describes someone hiding their personal interests or hobbies from others.

Hidden Interests

The secret might be hidden due to fear of being judged or misunderstood.

Social Perception

Refers to concealing one's sexual orientation from society.

Personal Identity

Availability of terms like 'closeted' reflects changing attitudes towards LGBTQ+ identities.

Social Evolution

Once a common term for bathroom, now archaic and rarely used.

Historic Usage

More commonly used in historic British English rather than other English dialects.

British English

Used to describe a situation where someone is kept away from the public or others.

Secrecy and Privacy

 I think that ship has sailed, it's too late for me. For better or for worse, that's what I'm going to be known as, as the guy who knew a lot of weird stuff. And I can't complain about this. I feel like that was always sort of my destiny, although I had for many years been pretty deeply in the trivia closet.

Ken Jennings: Watson,...

 about our mental or physical health. Maybe you're not allergic to cats, you just don't like them. I feel you on that one. Whatever it is that you're keeping in your closet, it shapes the way you navigate the world. That can include your work life. So how do we go about disclosing these important,

How to come out at work,...

 For many months, up to I think two years after that incident, she was so scared she couldn't be in the house when anyone was cleaning. She was quite literally a scaredy cat. She would hide in the closet. She was un-self-confident and shaky, but with the loving support of her family,

Depressed dogs, cats...

 there aren't many aspects of life. Correctional officers push food trays through slots in the doors and take the men to solitary exercise cages that are referred to by prisoners and staff alike, without irony, as dog runs. Other than that, these men are locked in cement closets,

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 as they had actually killed. A lot of people said, when I chose to write about my depression, that it must be very difficult to be out of that closet, to have people know. They said, "Do people talk to you differently?" I said, "Yes, people talk to me differently.

Depression, the secret...

 importance and you know it's it's kind of surreal for me that this you know this literally was starting to walk in closet and during the last TED talk we were only a seven person organization since then we're now sixty people we've

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 And I'm choosing to come out of a totally different kind of closet today to encourage you, to urge you, that if you are someone who has contemplated or attempted suicide, or you know somebody who has, talk about it; get help.

JD Schramm: Break the...

 This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet,

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 but buildings are ablaze in the hot, sulfurous air. Lucius climbs out of his closet and tries his front door, but a deep blanket of ash and stone won’t let it budge. His lamp flickers and dies.

Run, sail, or hide? How...

 being closeted was one of the worst parts of my life being out of it I mean it's not so much like a personal change it's a social change I came out on