Quotes About Misunderstanding

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.

I didn't want to be pro-life. I hated the pro-life movement. I had been taught to hate them. I thought they hated me.

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

Some people say I don't love the French national team. If that were the case, I would have said so directly to the coach, because I'm a big boy.

I just get this reputation of being a bad teammate, but no one would come in and tell me why.

I don't think I'm soft. I don't think my teammates think I'm soft. I don't know where that comes from, but... whatever.

y esto a santo de qué? ¿Por mi primer día? No, pensé que te haría feliz, eso es todo.

And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now." "Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 177). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

WHAT DOES SALMON HAVE TO DO with the Warriors?" I asked. Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salmon.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.

The sounds of southwestern cacti are broadcast for several weeks until, by general assent, it is agreed that cacti make no sounds.

The supposed American consensus had always been clouded. The experts had just become expert at ignoring the clouds.