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Quotes About Misunderstood

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
~ Peter De Vries
Damn it—why do you assume I'm naive?" She glared up at him. "You have no idea what it's been like my whole life, seeing all these shadows and never having them explained.
~ J.R. Ward
As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.
~ Jack Kerouac
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
~ David Harsanyi
I was typecast for a long time. A lot of people thought all Divine could do was play a loud, beefy blonde.
~ Divine
Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
~ Sylvester Stallone
You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
~ T.D. McKinney
She (Emily Dickinson) loved simplicity, and perhaps withdrrew into seclusion because it was the simplest way of doing what she wanted to do; express her ideas and thoughts in poetry which no one whom she knew would understand. This was as natural to her as breathing, but the pretense of the people around her seemed unnatural.
~ Tasha Tudor
'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.
~ Valerie Faris
I wasn't Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson. I wasn't Tori Amos or Norah Jones. Nobody knew what to do with me.
~ Sara Bareilles
Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.
~ Tori Spelling
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
~ Robert Graves
I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary.
~ Peaches Geldof
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
~ H. L. Mencken
couple of dozen CDs in it, mostly albums by American woman singer-songwriters of the offbeat, misunderstood, highly intelligent but intensely emotional school, getting rich selling music to consumers who understand what it's like not to be understood.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.
~ Terence Trent D'Arby
As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.
~ Kip Winger
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
~ Bill Cosby
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
~ Tavi Gevinson
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
~ Tavi Gevinson
It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.
~ Dwane Casey
I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.
~ Robert Indiana
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
~ Umberto Eco