Quotes About Misconceptions

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions

Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.

If the Martians take the writings of moral philosophers as a guide to what goes on on this planet they will get a shock when they arrive.

There were a small number of voices that said, 'Darvish only cares about strikeouts.' Although I may have had strikeouts in my mind, fans, team, teammates and team staff were always my top priority.

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

You know, because of my military background, I talk to voters who for the first two minutes think I'm a Republican.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you've died.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying 'g'day mate' and 'throw a shrimp on the Barbie.'

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

they share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don't wear masks or wield knives or drag women into the bushes. So they had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors.

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

We girls are supposed to at least have these amazing sexual powers, but in my recent experience this is just a lie told by men to make them feel better about having ALL the power.

It was the way so many people wanted to see Indians - not as real human beings, but as symbols of something fierce and untamed.

I will show you that despite what you might have read, genetics won't tell you how smart your kids will be, or what sports they should play, or what gender person they might fancy, or how they will die, or why some people commit acts of heinous violence and murder. Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong." H. L. Mencken