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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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• I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Zero, Lying, Past

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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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• You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Light, Darkness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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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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• 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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• I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

  Dennis Miller

  Lightning, Coins, Realms

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Competition, Too Much

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mind, Let It Go, Goes On

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• Journalism is organized gossip.

  Edward Eggleston

  Funny, Journalism, Organized

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• "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Average, Envy

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• Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Slander

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• Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Reputation, Good Company, Wit

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• It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on, while continuing to boast that they could live somewhere for twenty years without so much as exchanging pleasantries with their neighbors across the hall.

  Louis Kronenberger

  New York, Eye, Years

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• Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Heart, Men, Essence

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

  George Clooney

  Busy, Cruise, Break

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• Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

  Jack Levin

  People, Rumor, Different

  Jack Levin, Arnold Arluke (2013). “Gossip: The Inside Scoop”, p.42, Springer

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• I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Fun, Lying

  "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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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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• As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Dog, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith

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• Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Flower, Winning, Joy

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• Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Despair, Treachery, Psychopathology

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso

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• The technology broadens an individual's social field massively and at the same time makes it much, much easier and cheaper to consume gossip. We have the same appetite for gossip, but now its acquisition is even easier than grabbing sugary and fatty foods off a supermarket shelf. And look where that got us. When you watch people in public desperately punching away at their machines, it's hard not to think of addictions.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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