Quotes About Misconception

Si consideramos la hipótesis de que la gente no es leída, se entienden muchas cosas que no se han comprendido durante mucho tiempo pensando que ha sido leída.

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.

There will always be people who think volleyball, at least for boys anyway, is a sport you play when you can't letter in anything else.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

I'm not a sexist.

It can be embarrassing being associated with a character like Finchy - people naturally assume you're just like him. Some people come up and tell me the most appalling sexist or racist joke they know because they see me as him.

A lot of people are shocked when they hear that I played a 14-year-old.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

A lot of people think a running back is just a guy who lowers his shoulder and runs people over, and that's not my game.

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.