Quotes About Misrepresentation

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

Cost underestimation and overrun have not decreased over the past seventy years. No learning seems to take place; • Cost underestimation and overrun cannot be explained by error and seem to be best explained by strategic misrepresentation, namely lying, with a view to getting projects started.

Their common interest in Western mystics like Meister Eckhart led both Nishida and Suzuki to misrepresent Christianity as some kind of inferior version of Mahayäna Buddhism, thus reversing the old schemas applied to the East by Westerners.

Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.

This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.

The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire. Chief Black Kettle and his people had already signed for peace." "The newspapers at home never tell that side of the story." "Maybe they should.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

There is no truth in him.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. Especially with the stuff they wrote about Jessica and I - it's obviously not true.

The images had been provided by movies, books and Pathe News, and none included a six-foot tall Black woman hovering either in the back or in the foreground.