Quotes About Misconception

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Wrong is for other people.

I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim... I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess - let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The stigma with country is it's not cool. That's wrong. Country is very cool. I look at award shows, I look at how country is represented. Country is represented with an asterisk. We have to perform collaborations. We have to perform a tribute. We can't perform by ourselves.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

I really don't have to disprove anything - I'm in the NFL, so whoever is thinking of me as a track guy is worried about the wrong thing.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.

I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.

I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

I think I've thrown enough balls and put it on tape where I don't think arm strength is an issue. I wouldn't be a starting quarterback if my arm strength was such an issue. People are making it seem like I can't throw the ball 30 yards. People are getting out of hand with it.

Just because I don't smile a lot, people think, 'Ah, yeah. He must have a bad attitude.' But if you don't know me, you don't know me. That was the problem. My face is just serious!

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.

It's a big misconception that racing drivers aren't fit. My trainer, who used to be a professional triathlete, equates the fitness level of the drivers to triathletes.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.