Quotes About Misconceptions

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

That's not Eire. Everyone always thinks that, but we're not shamrocks and wee men. You should know the difference.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

Whatever appears (form and so on) is empty; whatever is empty appears (as form and so on). Therefore, for as long as the dharmadh?tu, the union of appearance and emptiness, free from the thirty-two misconceptions, is not realized, this is not yet the authentic prajñ?p?ramit?.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don't know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

It's absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

Peanuts aren't nuts. Whales aren't fish. Tomatoes aren't vegetables. And attributions, judgments, and accusations aren't feelings.

They all said the way to a man's heart was through his asshole.

Tell Your Children

But at the time of their call they were exceedingly ignorant, narrow-minded, superstitious, full of Jewish prejudices, misconceptions, and animosities. They had much to unlearn of what was bad, as well as much to learn of what was good, and they were slow both to learn and to unlearn.

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

Unfortunately, people always tend to think that girls are weak when it comes to physical tasks. The pressure is there to prove them wrong.

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.