Gossip Quotes - Page 20

• It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

  Woody Allen

  Pornography, Knows

  "Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Cable Tv

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.

  Blake Lively

  Hurt, People, Guy

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

  Tony Abbott

  Jobs, Should, Treasurer

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• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

  Dave Hickey

  Complaining, Apologizing, Shut Up

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

  James C. Scott

  Dream, People, Giving

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

  James C. Scott

  Rumor, World, Temperature

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

  William Congreve

  Together, Reputation, Murder

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 1

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• The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Philosophy, Lying, Differences

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• There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

  Samuel Butler

  Roaring, Lions, May

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4250, Delphi Classics

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• Historians are gossips who tease the dead

  Voltaire

  History, Tease, Historian

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• People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention that celebrities get, and I'm probably too old for that kind of thing to happen anyway. I think it happens more when you're dating all sorts of different very handsome actors or something. They want gossip and scandal, and they know they're not going to get it from me because I'm too old to be scandalous. Of course, they could read the book - although it's not really a scandalous book.

  Grace Coddington

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Communication, Fabulous, Internet

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

  James C. Scott

  Income, Speak, Property

  James C. Scott (1990). “Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life is hard For the man who quietly undertakes The way of perfection, With purity, detachment and vigor. He sees light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Light, Perfection

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• Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

  Og Mandino

  Scratches, Tongue, Praise

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam

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• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Baby, Lying, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, People, Musician

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• Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Puppets, Dimensions

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Wind, Want, Stuff

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Character, Analysis

  "Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction No. 87". Interview with Darryl Pinckney, www.theparisreview.org. 1985.

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  House, Royal, Affair

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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• I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin.

  Meghan McCain

  Men, Talking, Dating

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