Quotes About Misconception

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez relies on a lot of economic ignorance to get you to believe what's not true could be true.

I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am a New Yorker, that I am from New York, and I always felt like nothing could be further from the truth.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

Earlier, I was traveling all over the world. Then I got married. Everyone presumed I had lost interest in my career. That was not true.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

i realize you cant just throw real gems at ppl...because they think cubic zirconia is the real thing lol

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.