Quotes About Misrepresentation

It's not ok to make up stories about someone's life and you haven't even spoken with them.

There have been a number of film, TV, and - actually - theater productions that have been based off of me. Pretty much none of them have ever actually spoken to me, and I die in most of them.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

My time in high school and college, more than 30 years ago, has been ridiculously distorted.

He said the Iroquois was "completed and OK." Neither of those things were true.

Ahora bien, desde el principio se construyen como enemigos no tanto a los que son diferentes y que nos amenazan directamente (como sería el caso de los bárbaros), sino a aquellos que alguien tiene interés en representar como amenazadores aunque no nos amenacen directamente, de modo que lo que ponga de relieve su diversidad no sea su carácter de amenaza, sino que sea su diversidad misma la que se convierta en señal de amenaza. Véase

All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

I didn't comment on any actress, and I have never compared myself with any senior actresses. Moreover, I have said many times that I have learnt a lot from my seniors. Don't spread rumours and false news about me.

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

When you run into a story of more than three against one and one winning, then you have heard a lie.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.