Quotes About Misconceptions

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

They're always wrong in the movies.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

Most of us are as comfortable with our misbeliefs as we are with an old pair of house slippers: well-worn, familiar, and always waiting for us, despite the fact that they have out-lived their usefulness.

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. — H. L. Mencken (slightly rephrased)

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don't read reviews, I mean I don't read reviews.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.