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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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• 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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• Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

  Will Eisner

  Rivers, Secret, Curiosity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running, Men, Trying

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Mind, Enjoy

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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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• 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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• I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Perpetuating

  "Hogan War Heats Up: Linda Rejected From Brooke's 21st Birthday" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Shh" he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "Bridge to Terabithia". Book by Katherine Paterson, October 21, 1977.

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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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• I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I don't even know why they did it. I came home crying one day and told my mom I couldn't be around them anymore. So we decided I would be homeschooled. I think it's important to check in with yourself and make sure you are being exactly who you want to be. When I am true to who I am, I'm a better girfriend. I'm just more happy being me.

  Hayley Williams

  Mean Girls, Mom, Home

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• I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

  Scott Wolf

  Cousin, Cutting, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

  Drake

  Hater, Fake People, Humble

  Song: Best I Ever Had, 2009

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• There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Promise, Magazines

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• 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.

  Jack Levin

  People, Gossip, Different

  Jack Levin, Arnold Arluke (2013). “Gossip: The Inside Scoop”, p.42, Springer

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• I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Internet, Funny Bush

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• The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Smile, Dream, Baby

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Should Have, Giving

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• Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front-runner John Kerry. The woman added, 'I would never cheat on Bill Clinton.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, Years, Presidential

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Baby, Media, People

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