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Quotes About Misunderstood

Those girls are on the road to trouble, I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk - and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't think it's really about being bitchy or demanding or cold or calculating: those characteristics, after all, can be attached to most women with even the paltriest of evidence. I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated...
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
they are aware of having been misunderstood as children, they feel that the fault lay with them and with their inability to express themselves appropriately.
~ Alice Miller
the horse is by no means a 'wild beast' or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons.
~ Alois Podhajsky
A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.
~ China Mieville
You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
~ Sam Worthington
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
~ Richard Dawkins
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.
~ Roger Scruton
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
~ Tony Blair
We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.
~ Jay DeMarcus
I think it's easy for them to portray me as an aggressive player, but I'm not.
~ Marouane Fellaini
It's just crazy the way people portray me.
~ JaVale McGee
People often portray me as Miss Hard Stuff. It hurts my feelings a lot.
~ Lorrie Morgan
I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.
~ Sue Bird
I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.
~ Diana Rigg
The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.
~ Eddie the Eagle
People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.
~ Georgia Toffolo
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
~ Victoria Beckham
I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.
~ Tulisa
I am not as crazy as people think.
~ Tom Sizemore
I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.
~ Megan Amram