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• There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

  Bob Woodward

  Business, People, Literature

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• There are rumors that there is a John Edwards sex tape. People say it's twenty minutes of Edwards caressing and stroking...And that's just the part where he fixes his hair.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Hair, People

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• As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

  Maureen Lipman

  Fun, Forever, Let Me

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• It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.

  Zeena Schreck

  Motivation, Ignorance, Political

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• The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.

  Phil Cooke

  Way, Speculation, Transparent

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• Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Cat, Wish

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Environmental, Flow

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Art, Winning

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• The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Scarcity, Lasts, Affirmation

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Son, Stepsons, Managers

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• Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Enlightenment

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• I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Mind, Enjoy

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• Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Remember, Dictator

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• Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

  Alan Johnson

  May, Coal, Demise

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• There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hate, Hard Work, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Sports, Believe

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• the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Angel, Devil, Half

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• It's important to be aware of how we treat others. Even though someone appears to shrug off a sideways comment or to not be affected by a rumor, it's impossible to know everything else going on in that person's life, how we might be adding to his/her pain. People do have an impact on the lives of others; that's undeniable.

  Jay Asher

  Pain, Impact, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.298, Penguin

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• My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

  Wolf Blitzer

  School, Not Good Enough, Flying

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• You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.

  Richard Gere

  Years, Names, Moments

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• Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Krypton, Earth

  "US elections: Barack Obama jokes he is Superman". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

  Barbara Walters

  People, Lines, Depends

  "A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters". New York Magazine, March 25, 1974.

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• The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  War, Lying, Media

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