"Gossip is the social mosquito."
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"My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that."
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"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts."
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"A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip."
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"There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret."
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"President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip."
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"I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating."
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"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
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"I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
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"My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate."
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"It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt."
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"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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"My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
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"One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that."
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"Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population."
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"A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable."
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"In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese."
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"I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories."
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"There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour."
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"Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side."
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