Misconception Quotes - Page 6

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Way

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Media, Social

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• I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

  Lil' Kim

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Laughing, Comedian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.

  Archie Panjabi

  Mother, Mean, Introducing

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

  Anne Fontaine

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

  Amy Winehouse

  School, Blow, Thinking

  "Notes of disdain". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2004.

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• One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

  Thorsten Heins

  Smartphones, Parent, Blackberries

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Long

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• It was a particular pleasure to examine President Ronald Reagan's leadership. I experienced it first-hand, as a member of his administration in several capacities as well as his 1984 reelection campaign staff. The most common misconception is that Reagan was a bystander to his own career.

  James M Strock

  President, Common, Pleasure

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• I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Progress, Flow

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

  Randeep Hooda

  Sex, Love Is, Opposites

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• In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Ideas, Years, Long

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• I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.

  Matt Cullen

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Political, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.

  Os Guinness

  Errors, Views, Opposites

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• We have this misconception about women in the military, that they don't wear make-up, but in reality, they're very feminine women. You can be a tough woman, and still be a very nurturing and emotional parent. It's just not always black and white like that.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Military, Black And White, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

  Ice Cube

  Ghetto, People, Percentages

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• You don't have to be rich to be healthy. That's such a misconception.

  Jillian Michaels

  Healthy, Rich

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

  George Soros

  Real, Two, Trends

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

  George Soros

  Forever, Ifs, Bubbles

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with conviction and with religious beliefs, because those are immutable. But we need a new discourse that will be adapted to a new world and which will remove some of the misconceptions.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Religious, Needs, World

  "Egyptian President Sisi: Muslims Need To Reform Their Religious Discourse" by Kathleen Miles, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, House, Prejudice

  1927 Speech, Cambridge.

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• A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

  Dion DiMucci

  Order, Talking, People

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