Quotes About Misconceptions

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

If a marriage goes wrong, 60 percent of the blame is with the woman.

It's bizarre to say all bloggers are sellouts.

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

I am with a very successful man, and the crazy thing is people think that it makes my career easier.

Everybody always wants to make the show 'What's it like to have a beer with that person?' And everyone sucks at making it.

I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear.

C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

Parents always think they know so much about their kids when really, they hardly know a thing.

The weariness and serenity of the churches just now make it a good time to study the prophets and get rid of tired misconceptions. The dominant conservative misconception, evident in manifold bumper stickers, is that the prophet is a fortune-teller, a predictor of things to come (mostly ominous), usually with specific reference to Jesus.

Today, the word "refugee" is used in a horrible way. It's something either to be pitied or blamed for everything. Overpopulation? It's the refugees. Rents going up? It's the refugees. Crime? It's the refugees. If you label people refugees, they remain refugees for the rest of their lives.

results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. —Artemus Ward

Translation-?based language teaching is no longer in fashion, but its ghost still inhabits a number of misconceptions about what translation is or should be.