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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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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dry, Sauce

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• When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

  Osamu Dazai

  Pain, Liars, Writing

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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• Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

  Josh Billings

  Fighting, Bees

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• How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

  Philip Sidney

  Blow, Substance, Judgment

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• On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Slander

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• It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.

  Val Kilmer

  Jobs, Regret, Crazy

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• Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Tongue, Repeats, Ifs

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• Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

  Mike Watt

  Baby, Real, Today

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• The only rumors worth listening to have Stevie Nicks on vocals.

  Chris Jericho

  Listening, Vocal

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• I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's all bullshit. I already have that support system, and it's actually been really helpful. My parents have been in the entertainment business for so long that they really know what not to do.

  Eve Hewson

  Support Systems, Bullshit, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.

  Rod Lurie

  Book, Editors, Lines

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Reality, Garden, Years

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.18, Vintage

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• I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Daughter, Umbrella, Makers

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• The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.

  Markus Zusak

  Player, Sick, Might

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.220, RH Childrens Books

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• I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

  Zac Efron

  Gay, Way, Raised

  "'I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay' - Zac Efron opens up about homosexuality" by Corinne Redfern, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2012.

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• If your ex is making things up about you, he's obviously miserable. It's just like, 'Wow, this person really cares to go out of their way to start a rumor about me.' I've dealt with it so much, obviously. The first couple of times, it really sucks. But then [they] just come out with something else. If you dwell on it, it's going to make you miserable. Just move on and laugh it off.

  Brody Jenner

  Couple, Moving, Laughing

  "Brody Jenner Talks About Love". www.seventeen.com. December 21, 2007.

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• When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

  Elton John

  Going Away

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• Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Gay, Men, Talking

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• There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.

  Karen Black

  Years, People, Saws

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• I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Tabloids, Refuse

  "Golden girl LeAnn Rimes tarnished by relationship drama" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2009.

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• There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel

  Ice Cube

  Giving, Alcohol, Drug

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• A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Princess, School, Years

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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