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Quotes About Misunderstanding

I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren't close enough to know that I was still the same human being... When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.
~ Melanie Martinez
When I was 16, walking down Oxford Street, I saw Ian Brown. I said, 'Are you Ian Brown?' He said no and walked off, but I am sure it was him.
~ Pete Doherty
There's a beautifully simple sketch in the first episode of 'Smack the Pony:' two women approach each other walking their dogs and as they pass the women bark at each other, the dogs remaining perfectly calm. It kills me every time.
~ Joe Lycett
People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.
~ Spike Lee
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
~ Hanna Rosin
We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sal and I were in the mall just shopping, and we're walking through this retail store and little old lady goes 'NO! You're not gonna get at me.' We were just shopping. She was looking for cameras, she was like 'I know who you are, you crazies!' and she walked away from us.
~ Joe Gatto
I thought Christians were walking idiots.
~ Josh McDowell
People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
I'm a big guy; people don't realize that.
~ Michael Chiesa
I am not a bimbo actress like some people out there have made me look like.
~ Riya Sen
I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
~ Mark Gatiss
For me, there's a lot of erasure of bisexuality. I think a lot of people - especially in women - they tend to have really bad responses to it.
~ Zelda Williams
My bark is worse than my bite.
~ Wendy Williams
To be amongst people that know their lines and you're the only person that doesn't is just bizarre.
~ Martin Kemp
If the world misunderstands us, then I don't blame others, it's our problem.
~ Eric Yuan
When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.
~ George A. Romero
I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.
~ Holly Willoughby
I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.
~ LaMarcus Aldridge
My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.
~ Peter Beard
I'm tired of telling people what Bollywood is.
~ Kashmira Shah
Of course I expect to be booed. People always have to find the bad guy, and for some reason, the look on my face or something, people just want to boo me. That's fine.
~ Rashad Evans
Some people think I'm dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I'm bored.
~ JaVale McGee
I'm really bored by the constant vilifying of people (especially women) for things they didn't say.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell