Quotes About Misconception

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

The KKK members that I was dealing with never saw me because my interaction with them occurred over the phone. They were convinced that I was 1) white, and 2) a racial supremacist like them based strictly on my telephone conversation with them.

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

As a pilot, I can tell you drones may be a lot of things; airplanes they are not.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

Extras changed the public's perception of me hugely - they saw there was more to me than just this bloke off the telly.

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I'm not a rigorist by temperament.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

In her experience, men like Geraint were astoundingly prone to believe that their scattergun sexual advances were appreciated and even reciprocated.

Le hemos ofrecido una falsa impresión del desenfreno del proletariado

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

The name "water filter" is misleading. The word filtered literally means only that the water has passed through a medium containing tiny holes or fine passageways that screen out suspended particles. When

since 9/11 every penny-ante pissant they want to mess with gets the terrorist label slapped on. But a terrorist poker game. I'll admit, that's a new one.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.

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The image of medieval piety, of churches filled with devout peasants, has no historical basis.

As the distinguished medievalist Warren Hollister (1930–1997) put it in his presidential address to the Pacific Historical Association, "to my mind, anyone who believes that the era that witnessed the building of Chartres Cathedral and the invention of parliament and the university was 'dark' must be mentally retarded—or at best, deeply, deeply, ignorant."60

You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.

Each side possessed a lurid, distorted view of the other, buttressed by an idealized sense of itself.

By a strange coincidence, they looked so much alike that everybody assumed they were biological sisters.

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of