Quotes About Misrepresentation

A lot of stuff, I've noticed, gets manipulated by writers when it's shown on television—even so-called reality television—and makes us think we're supposed to think and act and look certain ways, when the true reality is totally the opposite. Often there's no "right way" to look or think or act, but because we've been so conditioned by the media to think so, we actually mistrust our own better judgment.

Hello, Lilly said.Movie. Of your life.You were portrayed as shy and awkward. I am shy and awkward, I reminded her. They made your grandmother all kindly and sympathetic to your plight, Lilly said.It was the grossest mischaracterization I've seen since Shakespeare in Love tried to pass off the Bard as a hottie with a six-pack and a full set of teeth.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. —G. C. Lichtenberg

Putting a cat into a stable doesn't make it a horse

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

My dad's a doctor, and he'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy,' and he'd be like, 'This is not okay. This isn't what it's like.' And we're like, 'Shut up, it's not about that. That's not why we're watching it.'

Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.

I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be sure to attempt an inaccurate, sensationalised biography, possibly including me, possibly writing me out of the script.

Most people are distrustful of others who present themselves as one thing, then turn out to be another. I find it more useful to let them make their presumptions, then follow their preconceived notions.

I]t contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

I think we have been unnecessarily maligned with a desire or a wish or intent on our part to try to defraud anybody. We haven't.

I would say to people of a libertarian conservative position on an issue, do not do a taped interview. You're going to come out looking really bad. No matter what you say, no matter how eloquently you answer a question, your answer is not going to be what you said.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Than the socialists say that we don't want an religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Than they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

It's as if they're wearing a lie, but it doesn't fit them." Trista tried to straighten her thoughts. "They haven't buttoned it the right way, so it's baggy in some places and coming away in others.

Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The whites were complaining at the same time that we were intruding upon their rights. They made it appear that they were the injured party, and we the intruders. They called loudly to the great war chief to protect their property. How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.