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Quotes About Misconceptions

In 1943, incoming college freshmen—only 6 percent of whom could list the original thirteen colonies—named Abraham Lincoln as the first president and the one who "emaciated [sic] the slaves." The
~ Thomas M. Nichols
The Reformation happened for a reason! Still, the danger for many Protestants is to assume that the church had little to no understanding of the Pauline gospel for its first 1,500 years. Such a judgment is a gross exaggeration.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.
~ Thubten Chodron
Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
~ Jose Carreras
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
~ Margaret Atwood
I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'
~ Tarana Burke
Comments like 'he's not committed' or 'he's not good enough' appear as soon as you are not 110 per cent. I find it quite annoying how people read into stuff and form their own opinions.
~ Jofra Archer
There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.
~ Lauren Jauregui
People have a wrong notion that film stars don't make good politicians. I must tell those who address stars with derogatory comments that people like us work for the betterment of their constituency with heart and soul.
~ Jaya Prada
Nowhere in the world will you find a cowboy speaking in Tamil.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
People are like, oh, you just hang out with Kim all day. No, I'm working on 39 businesses. It drives me nuts.
~ Jonathan Cheban
If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
~ Kevin Spacey
I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.
~ Manal al-Sharif
When I'm out and about, I never get chatted up by women in an obvious way.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.
~ Charlie Brooker
There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good people from the Balkans as well.
~ Granit Xhaka
And if I happen to tell a lie or two from time to time, it is so you do not come to any false conclusions about me.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Everything popular is wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
Same thing's wrong with all men," the white woman said in a husky voice. "Thinkin' about a woman's butt and then wonderin' why they got shit for brains.
~ Walter Mosley
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker.
~ Chas Newkey-Burden
I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.
~ Cheryl Strayed
People want to help I woman alone. Or try to get in her pants.
~ Cheryl Strayed
After seeing how some people wear masks, we now know why contraception fails.
~ Internet meme, 2020