Quotes About Misrepresentation

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.

If I go to Liverpool, everyone's really nice to me. But when we do 'Scousers' I portray Liverpudlians as a bunch of thieving, unemployed, violent wastrels, which is a really terrible thing to do.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

But what clouds our view is the Enemy's skill at cropping photos.

While it is often said that the terrorists have "hijacked" Islam, judging by what Islam really teaches, in reality it is the so-called moderate Muslims who are misrepresenting the true teachings of Islam.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

THE SCHOOLS THEY NEVER BUILT The Clintons claim to have built schools in Haiti. But the New York Times discovered that when it comes to the Clintons, "built" is a term with a very loose interpretation.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

If you believe the media, all Trump voters are mouth-breathers who can barely sign their name.

This ain't what we are, homes," Lalo says. "This is not us. This is the story they tell about us, but it's not true.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim."

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm sick of people putting words in my mouth.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.