Quotes About Misconceptions

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

I believe it's a wrong conclusion to draw that Indians can't play spin bowling.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked

If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman.

You know what else I did?' he yelled after me as I left. I fingered her! I turned back to look at him. He made me laugh. He pretended to be so confused and helpless, but maybe he was smarter than all of us. 'The inside of a vagina isn't at all what I thought it would feel like,' he shouted excitedly. 'It feels very organized.' Maybe not.

The great lie of modern dating is that in order to sleep with a woman, a man must pretend initially as if he doesn't want to.

And mingled with her disbelief and resentment was another feeling, a question. Why hadn't she spoken that day? Why, in the face of Bellew's ignorant hate and aversion, had she concealed her own origin? Why had she allowed him to make his assertions and express his misconceptions undisputed? Why, simply because of Clare Kendry, who had exposed her to such torment, had she failed to take up the defense of the race to which she belonged?

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marriage isn't what people think it is. People want to believe that every marriage is this perfect balance

We got a lot of gay fan mail when the show first started. Something to do with being in San Francisco and being a big, burly guy with a big moustache. But we're both happily married. To women.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.