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Quotes About Misunderstanding

People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.
~ Joey Jordison
I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'
~ Gisele Bundchen
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
~ Carre Otis
We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.
~ April Glaspie
For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.
~ Molly Ivins
People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.
~ Christopher Monckton
I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.
~ Sky Ferreira
People get a kick out of my stupidity.
~ Dolly Parton
I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
~ Jenny Slate
I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.
~ Kelly Brook
I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~ Cat Stevens
We should make the case for the things we love, even if we think that people will misunderstand them. That is why people defend the U.S. Constitution, even though so few really understand the subtle thinking embodied in that document.
~ Roger Scruton
Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.
~ Bobby Heenan
People tend 2 choke that which they do not understand
~ Tupac Shakur
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.
~ Tupac Shakur
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.
~ Unknown
An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
~ Unknown
To some baffled parents youth is stranger than fiction
~ Unknown
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
~ Unknown
She thinks that I'm full of it, always pissed, man I'm tired, every kiss, that I miss, girl you know I'm trying, you never believe when I say, I never believe when you say, I love you
~ Usher
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Sex can be estranging; it can drive two otherwise compatible people apart.
~ Unknown