Quotes About Misconception

It was called the Spanish flu not because it began in Spain, but because that country, being a noncombatant in the war, did not censor news.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

That's not the way he told it, Tarwater said. He said that when the schoolteacher was seven years old, he had good sense but later it dried up. His daddy was an ass and not fit to raise him and his mother was a whore. She ran away from here when she was eighteen years old. It took her that long? the stranger said in an incredulous tone. My, she was kind of a ass herself.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.

I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.

To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

I don't consider myself a fat cat. Don't make me out to be a fat cat.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

Feminism in India is very fake.

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

People like to think of feminists as angry.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

A big misconception is that women shouldn't be in the UFC because we fight 'like girls,' but I think women have some of the most exciting fights.

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.