Quotes About Misrepresentation

When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen.

It was a fake, mash-up concept of layered misrepresentations: one, that women were traveling to Syria as comfort women to fighters; two, that they justified this behavior theologically.

I rarely find that things put in quotes, attributed to me, are things that I said -certainly in the context in which they are presented.

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

The image that is on screen is very different from who I am in real life.

Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

It is a sad fate for a people to be defined for posterity by their enemies.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Understood: language would end up falsifying everything, as language always does.

abruptly cut off by the interviewer. He got a little carried away. This is like saying Hitler was a tad aggressive.

Honestly, my dating life according to the tabloids is very exciting, and the most hilarious thing is that it's nowhere near as exciting as the tabloids have ever made it out to be.

Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy, the one true victory over the world, is pure in its essence, hence irreducible to pleasure, which is always suspect, both in itself and in its manifestations.

Tuchman's Law: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to- tenfold." Barbara Tuchman Foreward to A Distant Mirror Published 1978

Reality TV is anything but.