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• If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.

  Billy Connolly

  Heard, Havens, Ifs

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• This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Want, Topics

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• It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, "Always", and that was that.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Goodbye, Character, Leaving

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

  Angela Merkel

  States

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• By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

  Jonathan Raban

  Taken, Cities, Detroit

  Jonathan Raban (2011). “Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America”, p.303, Vintage

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• Memory itself is an internal rumour.

  George Santayana

  Memories, Moments, Internals

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.375, 谷月社

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• Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

  Herbert Spencer

  Reality, Rumor, May

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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• Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

  Eli Roth

  Wonderful

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• The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

  William Ernest Henley

  Labyrinth, Retreat, Pseudonyms

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

  James de la Vega

  Business, Winning, Games

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• Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Interesting, Musical, Soap

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

  Theodor Adorno

  Jew, Anti Semitism

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.110, Verso

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, Soul

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• RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ears, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

  George Orwell

  Song, Military, Lectures

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't know when it will present itself - I don't know where it will be. But - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, I intend to go there.

  Timothy Findley

  Rain, Dark, Past

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• There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

  Trudi Canavan

  Trouble, Findings, Bits

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• ... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Book, Wind, Desert

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.261, Vintage

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• You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

  David Duchovny

  Floating, Strange, Heard

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Empire Magazine Interview, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

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• Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Evil, Crime, Unbelievable

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Years, Names, Numbers

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

  Wole Soyinka

  Next, World, Corruption

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound of a newborn's cries echoed up into the high ceiling. The warrior stopped in midpunch and wheeled around as a lovely female carrying young in a pink blanket came over to him. His face softened, positively melted.

  J.R. Ward

  Warrior, Doors, Lovely

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• . . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .

  Laurie R. King

  Spring, Winter, Gun

  Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.296, Macmillan

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