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Quotes About Misrepresentation

I think a lot of people can come across looking messier than they are, but that's what reality TV is unfortunately.
~ Shaunie O'Neal
The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
~ Camille Paglia
I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.
~ Gregg Wallace
A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
~ Sacheen Littlefeather
It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.
~ Krysten Ritter
I am extremely frustrated with my son Ishaan Khattar being referred to as 'Kapur' time and again in the media. I am anguished and feel helpless.
~ Rajesh Khattar
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don't really know me.
~ Patrick Reed
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version
~ George Orwell
I'm tired of seeing the press equate Monaco with money laundering.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
If you put a Ferrari sticker on a toaster, it doesn't go any faster.
~ Sergio Marchionne
When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.
~ Thomas Frank
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
~ Don Feder
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?
~ Kurt Cobain
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
~ Arthur W. Pink
A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.
~ Stephen Fry
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
~ Jonathan Davis
I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)
~ Jonathan Swift
Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
~ Erastus Flavel Beadle
We were more likely to see an unfair or inaccurate story from journalists who did not usually cover the Fed and were, consequently, less well informed.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Half a truth is often a great lie
~ Benjamin Franklin
The media doesn't always reflect reality.
~ John Catsimatidis
So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.
~ David Denman
You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.
~ Alice Eve