Quotes About Misrepresentation

People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Even the biggest of criminals don't go through what I or my family went through. A small incident was portrayed in the wrong way in front of the world. Maybe that's how the world works.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

Too often, the people who write captions to photographs indulge their own uninformed fantasies about the pictures and what they mean.

THE PILGRIM MOTHERS AND FATHERS Provincetown's first settlers were, in fact, the Pilgrims, who sailed the Mayflower into Provincetown Harbor in 1620. They spent the winter there but, finding too little fresh water, sailed that spring to Plymouth, which has gone into the history books as the Pilgrims' initial point of disembarkation. Provincetown is, understandably, not happy about this misrepresentation of the facts.

When a man hears himself misrepresented, it provokes him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.