Quotes About Mislabeling

They always call 'Poldark' a 'bodice-ripper,' but I don't think a single bodice has ever been ripped.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

The only accidents I know of are incidents that have been subjected to a serious case of mislabeling

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

I don't portray a terrorist. The American fans label me a terrorist. It doesn't matter what I claim to be: in their eyes, I am whatever they say I am despite the fact that I'm not committing any 'acts of terror.' I ask you, how am I portraying a terrorist? Because I look like a Muslim?

The hardest thing is that the people who don't know anything about fighting, they label you. Once they get to know me, they're like, 'Ah, you're not anything like I thought.' That's probably the hardest thing about being a fighter - everything else is easy.

what we think of as an advantage and as a disadvantage is not always correct, that we mix the categories up.

You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled by activists, institutions, and mainstream journalists with every career-ending epithet from 'Islamophobe' to 'Nazi.'

Calling a tenth- or eleventh-century Norman a Frenchman would have been a bit like telling a Glaswegian he's English, and we all know how dangerous that can be.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.

'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.

Cuando lo vieron ganar dinero, dijeron: es un comerciante. Cuando lo vieron repartir el dinero, dijeron: es un ambicioso. Cuando lo vieron rechazar los honores, dijeron: es un aventurero. Cuando lo vieron rechazar el trato social, dijeron: es un borrico.

They sent her to the fourteenth floor, which Elle knew was always the thirteenth mislabeled for the people whose idea of the borderline between reality and nonsense was flexible.