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...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

Some people rely on rumors and gossip because they are devoid of any original thought.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

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

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."

It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________ ,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).

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.

There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Celebrity gossip has become like the blob in that (1958) Steve McQueen movie: It spreads everywhere it can. 'Entertainment Tonight' begat 'Access Hollywood.' TV people saw these two shows could succeed and created an entire channel for it.

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

If you are going to do a gossip column, you should do it with the same ethical standards as in the rest of the paper. But the minute that comes out of my mouth, it sounds preposterous.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Good gossip is just what's going on. Bad gossip is stuff that is salacious, mean, and bitchy; the kind most people really enjoy.

It came from a couple bites on the Internet that collided. It showed up on one of these gossip sites, and Ang and I were like, 'Huh? What?' I'm a Dusty Springfield fan but it's all completely fabricated.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Governor Stevenson to make up his mind whether he would run or not. That's gossip as far as I'm concerned.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

Who gossips with you will gossip of you

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

You do get to hear some good gossip.

Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

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

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

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.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

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

Slander is poison to the soul.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Faith, contentment and tolerance are the food and provisions of the angels. They obtain the Perfect Vision of the Lord, while those who gossip find no place of rest.

The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.

A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends

As one of the most highly publicized relationships in Hollywood, people are waiting for the next move between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. And the public's eagerness for gossip has grown now that they've announced they are expecting.

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

A lot of people use gossip as a negative thing,

They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cooler, ... At least you knew your co-workers at the water cooler.

This list was released after a non-journalist gossip monger on the Internet started this a week ago, without any facts, ... And I stand here today among some of you who have broken the agreement on putting it out before the agreed upon hour.

As we all know, Britney and Kevin's life together has been played out in front of the public through Internet speculation, the gossip columnists and entertainment magazines, ... But now, for the first time, their millions of fans will get to see and hear the couple's real story ... as told directly by them.

It's a place to shop, eat and gossip.

It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

It's like a chill spot, people go over there and gossip.

Its like the old economic theory about money ? bad gossip, it seems, drives out good gossip. We get every detail of the dress that the latest anorexic bombshell on the red carpet is wearing. We know entirely too much about these people.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

It's interesting to see it all unravel. Gossip magazines, just by catching people walking down the streets, can actually be more effective and fashion-oriented than fashion magazines.

These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.

It's really out of control. You have gossip everywhere, you have misunderstanding everywhere and you have students who aren't fully informed.

I'm concerned that I and my memo have become the issue. This is not gossip. I've asked questions. Are we asking people to sweep things under the rug?

In the world of birds, ruffled feathers is one sign of a virus. Isnt that also the case at work or home? Infected birds shed the virus by exhaling and excreting. Humans do it through gossip and anger. Both are contagious. Dont be a carrier!

I live in a small town now, so beauty salons are sort of like where all the gossip ruminates where I live.

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.