Gossip Quotes - Page 11

• Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

  Beth Ditto

  Nice, Home, Thinking

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• No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

  Kevin Spacey

  Stories, Lines, Life Is

  "Kevin Spacey On His New Film Casino Jack: Interview and Trailer". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. December 14, 2010.

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• I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Baby, Mirrors, People

  "Jada Pinkett Smith On Tabloid Rumors: ‘I’ve Seen Marriages Destroyed By Gossip’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

  Jane Smiley

  Ideas, People, World

  "Fictionaut Five: Jane Smiley" by Meg Pokrass, fictionaut.com. December 29, 2010.

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• If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Loneliness, Thinking

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• [Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.

  Gretl Braun

  Strong, Stars, Boys

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Envy, Abuse

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• You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Giving, Poor

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• I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.

  Holly Madison

  Stars, Party, Vegas

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  Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Heart, Positivity

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

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• Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor, who can offer a favor, who's available, who's under the protection of a jealous spouse. And being the first to get a piece of gossip is like engaging in insider trading: You can capitalize on an opportunity before anyone else can.

  Steven Pinker

  Jealous, Opportunity, Firsts

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• Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

  George Harrison

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Wreck Of The Hesperus, Album: Cloud Nine

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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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.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Talking, Sound

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• Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Emotional, Hands

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• I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just one that's kind of mysterious and nice. On the other hand, the New York gossip about me was that I'd never write another book. So I thought, 'Well, I will then.

  Charles Frazier

  New York, Nice, Book

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• My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
  My tears like vinegar,
  Or the bitter blinking yellow
  Of an acetic star.
  Tonight the caustic wind, love,
  Gossips late and soon,
  And I wear the wry-faced pucker of
  The sour lemon moon.
  While like an early summer plum,
  Puny, green, and tart,
  Droops upon its wizened stem
  My lean, unripened heart.

  Sylvia Plath

  Broken Heart, Summer, Stars

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Envy, Religion

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Witty, Business

  'The Idler' no. 40 (20 January 1759)

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• The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Islamic, Differences, Government

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• The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

  Bill Keller

  Queens, Celebrity Gossip, Wings

  "The NYT versus the Huffington Post: a cat fight over kitten videos" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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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.

  Alveda King

  Country, People, President

  "Why the Establishment Wants to Destroy Herman Cain" by Dr. Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.

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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.

  Anne Lamott

  Fire, Media, Giants

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• What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

  Lucy Larcom

  Thinking, Self, Curiosity

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• Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.

  Robert Mark Kamen

  Writing, Variety

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