Quotes About Misconception

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.

There is this massive misconception that young people have absolutely no interest in the news. Young people definitely do want to be informed, but they want to be informed by people they can relate to.

and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

All these years Litvinoff had imagined he was so much like his friend. He'd prided himself on what he considered their similarities. But the truth was that he was no more like the man fighting a fever in bed ten feet away than he was like the cat that had just slunk off: they were different species.

Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in any way original. And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him.

Miss! Never trust a Jew!

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

If you knew Norman Mailer and me and were asked to guess which of us cared more about sex, you would, of course, pick Norman Mailer. How wrong you would be.

You can eat all sorts of things that are high in dietary cholesterol (like lobster and avocado and eggs) and they have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on your cholesterol count. NONE. WHATSOEVER. DID YOU HEAR ME?

Vamos falar de sexo - começou. - Eu percebo de sexo. A mãe diz que não dói, mas às vezes as pessoas gitam e fazem barulhos porque é divertido.

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

In other words, people who don't know better are often wrong by accident, and people who do know better are sometimes wrong on purpose—and whenever a modern news story explodes, everyone recognizes that possibility. But we question this far less when the information comes from the past. It's so hard to get viable info about pre-twentieth-century life that any nugget is reflexively taken at face value.

Ev­ery­thing you re­mem­ber is wrong.

Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.

Everything you remember is wrong.

La gente está siempre dispuesta a creer lo contrario de lo que cuentas.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic.

Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.

We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are

He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.