President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

Alveda King

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We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms.

Alex Berenson

Pet Zen Wit

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Alex Kapranos

T Sip School

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

Alice Eve

Love You Wit

There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

Alice Oswald

Time Men Government

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.

Alveda King

Travel Men Would

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Ambrose Bierce

T Sip Road

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Amos Oz

Love Wrote Who

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

Amy Jackson

Us Thick T

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

Women Men While

Some people will always gossip.

Andris Nelsons

Will Ways Way

I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

Andy Cohen

Work Courage Art

In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind.

Andy Cohen

You Wives Watch

Do not read 'Hard Choices' if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world's foreign policy, let alone any juicy gossip.

Anne Applebaum

Alone You World

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Anne Hathaway

Trust Money Age

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

Anne Lamott

Whip Watching Watch

Gossip is the biggest enemy in a healthy relationship and creates distrust.

Ashish Vidyarthi

Trust Relationship Health

I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.

Ava Gardner

Wood Woo Way

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Barbara Kruger

History Car Which

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Walters

You Will Who

We have to train our kids better and really enforce in them that no matter what mainstream media and pop culture and all of the terrible things around us say - that it's OK to tear people down, that somehow it will make you feel better, and it's OK to gossip about people - it won't make you feel better.

Barrett Wilbert Weed

Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.

Ben Domenech

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

Ben Domenech

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

Bernie Sanders

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

A weird thing about Gossip that I've always said: 'If I weren't in this band, I would never listen to it.' But I would go see it. It's a band you would go see that you don't necessarily listen to. We've always wanted to do a live album because personally, I think we're a way better band live than on record.

Beth Ditto

I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

Beth Ditto

Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

Beth Ditto

When we did 'Endgame,' we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for 'Gossip Girl' and things like that, where, as an actress, you're required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It's a presentation of your birthday-suit self.

Betty Gilpin

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'

Betty Gilpin

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

Beverley Mitchell

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Bill Keller

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

Billy Corgan

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Billy Graham

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

Blake Lively

I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.

Blake Lively

After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'

Blake Lively

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

Blake Lively

The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Boo Weekley

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Brene Brown

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

Caitlin Rose

I grew up watching 'Gossip Girl' and 'The O.C.,' and I looked up to Blair Waldorf and Summer Roberts.

Camila Mendes

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

Candace Bushnell

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

Carla Gugino

The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites.

Carole Radziwill

People like to gossip about people who are successful.

Carole Radziwill

The publishing industry is not immune to gossips.

Carole Radziwill

My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.

Carole Radziwill

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

Carrie Fisher

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

Casey Affleck