Gossip Quotes
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
Peter Diamandis
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott
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Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Stephen Carter
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That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.
Elena Ferrante
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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
Bernard Ingham
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I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
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...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato the Elder
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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Marilyn Monroe
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Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'
Emma Kenney
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
William H. Gass
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Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.
Nancy Hale
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I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.
Mischa Barton
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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice. (p. 24)
Marshall McLuhan
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I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.
Amy Jackson
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I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.
Michael Jackson
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
Elaine Equi
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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
William Butler Yeats
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I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.
Winona Ryder