Quotes About Misconceptions

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I've met.

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

People that like Slipknot that could care less about Stone Sour, people that like Stone Sour that don't know a lot of Slipknot.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

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With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

Jokes about Crazy Cat Ladies seem harmless enough, but at their core is a disturbing echo of the hysterical witch superstitions of the Middle Age.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race.

I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like, 'Oh my God, they're gonna think I'm not even gonna be able to sit at the table.' But I've come to see that a lot of these musicians don't know how to read music either, and that made me feel good.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn't mean they're going to be like, 'Oh yeah, let's get together!' It doesn't always happen like that.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.