Quotes About Misunderstanding

I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn't portray them as idiots.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

From the things I've read, I think I've been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don't put an effort into winning. I think that's completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am.

There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.

Don't judge me by what someone posts on my page on Facebook.

You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It's the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.

The media doesn't understand conservatives at all.

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

There is a huge contrast between what others think who I am and my real self.

My name is always just added into any controversy without clarifying with me first.

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

I married a man who convinced me that he loved me, who looked lonely and who I thought had the same ideas about life and the same goals, but we were just too different.

My very close friend, Aisha Ahmed... everyone is convinced that I am dating her.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Men huddle in a corner and talk about me, rather than walking up to me and chatting me up.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.