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"What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do."
"I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy."
"the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated."
"Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job."
"As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues."
"My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that."
"Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings"
"Memory... is an internal rumor."
"Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by."
"One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is."
"Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime."
"I heard that I was gay before, and I was like "Really?" And then I started thinking: You haven't really made it unless somebody says you're gay. And I was like, "hm. I'm not gay, but thanks for the rumor!""
"Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . ."
"There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, 'Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby.'"
"I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film."
"Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated."
"Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones."
"It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!"
"On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride."
"I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol."
