Gossip Quotes - Page 20

• The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

  Khushwant Singh

  Party, Lasts, Concerned

  Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.74, Penguin Books India

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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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• Little said is soonest mended.

  George Wither

  Littles, Said

  Shepherd's Hunting, 1615.

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• Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Media, Issues

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Gun

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• If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.

  Aesop

  Education, Nice, Say Anything

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• Historians are gossips who tease the dead

  Voltaire

  History, Tease, Historian

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• It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

  Robert Hughes

  Dope

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

  Michael Jackson

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Sports, Sex, Media

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• I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Stupid, Thinking, Self

  "Robert Pattinson trying to ‘never be photographed ever’". Interview with Associated Press, pagesix.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

  Scott Pelley

  Journalism, Antidote

  "Scott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly" by Michael Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.

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• The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to Canada's Foreign Minister, Peter MacKay. It's gotta be awkward dating a fellow diplomat. Like today, MacKay had to promise Condi he would get permission from the U.N. before he invaded her.

  Jay Leno

  Dating, Awkward, Promise

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• I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Envy, Greed

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• I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Fashion, Cancer, Clothes

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• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Envy, Criticism

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• Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

  Robert Ludlum

  Men, Information, Stopping

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.237, Bantam

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