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Quotes About Misrepresentation

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.
~ Tayeb Salih
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
~ Tennessee Williams
Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
~ Youssou N'Dour
It's probably incorrect to say that Islam is 'a religion of peace,' as some politicians like to say. Overstatements like that don't clarify anything.
~ Jay Parini
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
~ Jeff Sessions
Lo que nos dicen las personas de sus sentimientos a menudo es incompleto, a veces manifiestamente falso, y siempre viene modificado para consumo público.
~ Frans de Waal
For a population 98 percent illiterate, there is, however, an enormous amount of literature written about them.
~ Frantz Fanon
Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
~ French proverb
Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .
~ Brandon Sanderson
His phone chirped the sound of some bird. "That's actually the call of an eagle," Tobias said. "Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon...
~ Brandon Sanderson
The Eagles portrayed me to be this crazy young thug guy. But as far as me being a respectful guy and doing what's right instead of wrong - I've always felt I've been on that right path.
~ DeSean Jackson
At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.
~ John Fusco
It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.
~ Rithvik Dhanjani
Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
~ Criss Jami
Do not be afraid, my lady," soothed Durwin. " he is not so terrible that he cannot be faced. Evil always misrepresents itself.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.
~ Stephen Richards
Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts
~ Sterling Seagrave
When I was released by the Eagles, I feel they tried to paint a picture that definitely wasn't true. It was a slap in the face, coming off one of my best seasons in the NFL.
~ DeSean Jackson
Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.
~ Rakhi Sawant
It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.
~ Terry Pratchett
What did you lie to me
~ Theodore Dreiser
Journalists are still inventing things that never existed about me. Before, it made me cry, but now I laugh about it.
~ Isabelle Adjani
On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.
~ Sheila Hancock