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Quotes About Misrepresentation

hoax played by a drunken officer.
~ Robert Muchamore
American psychiatry has told the public a false story over the past thirty years.
~ Robert Whitaker
they would make her own short body look like a dwarf dragging a curtain.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race
~ Ron Chernow
These horror stories about Hamilton have been regurgitated for two centuries and are now engraved on the memories of historians and readers alike. Unfortunately, these vignettes often cruelly misrepresent Hamilton and have done no small damage to his reputation. Jefferson understood very well the power of laying down a paper trail.
~ Ron Chernow
At this, Hamilton dropped any pose of civility and chastised Monroe, saying "your representation is totally false.
~ Ron Chernow
But I know Downyflake only makes cake doughnuts. No glazed. No Boston cream. No jelly. Why are they lying?
~ E. Lockhart
Bad Boys was nothing less than a complete travesty of the truth. It turned my parents into the villains of the piece.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.
~ Shirley Temple
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.
~ Raul Castro
The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
~ Conrad Black
They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
~ Jello Biafra
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.
~ Anchee Min
This is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America."29 Trump has told this lie over 250 times. Our economy was better under a number of other presidents, including Eisenhower, Johnson, and Clinton.
~ Ronald J. Sider
We have the biggest tax cut in history."30 Nope, Reagan passed one that was three times larger. Trump has told this lie over 180 times.31
~ Ronald J. Sider
Ils racontaient sur mon compte des horreurs à n'en plus finir et des mensonges à s'en faire sauter l'imagination.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
~ Krista Allen
Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
~ Andre Malraux
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
~ John Cornyn
There have been people who have done things in the name of Christ they never should have done...not everything done in the name of Christ should, in point of fact, be attributed to Christianity. It's important to remember that it's not Jesus' teaching that are at fault here; it's the actions of those who, for whatever reason, greatly strayed from what he clearly taught...
~ John D. Woodbridge
I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
~ Mark Strand
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
~ Winona Ryder
It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
~ Zach Braff