Quotes About Misrepresentation

Have you ever noticed? In cartoons, fathers are often useless loafs, incapable of even the least bit of kindness. Even though there's no more tender meat than a father's heart!

The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told. —YELLOW WOLF OF THE NEZ PERCÉ

Captions and hashtags didn't tell the whole story. They didn't even tell the real story a lot of the time.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.

I'm kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they're always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a "perverted" adaptation of what was originally intended.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Feminist' gets misrepresented as a dirty word, echoing throughout the timeline of experiences of activists in the women's movement since the 70's and longer; we've been seen as the radical feminists who want women to leave their husbands, become lesbians, dye their hair green. If wanting a woman to be able to own her own sexuality, to be able to live life with freedom and dignity and find and make her own choices are these things, then yes, we are nasty women - the nastiest around.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

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

Half the truth is often a great lie.

I showed them a clip from Brokeback Mountain, which I think was done a tremendous disservice when they pitched it as a gay cowboy movie. I didn't see it, but it's fairly clear from the trailer that the point of the movie is that it's great to have a job that consumes most of your day.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.