Misinterpreted Quotes

• I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Anger, Passion

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Modern, Egoism

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• When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

  Henry M. Morris

  Bible, Data, Agnostic

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• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Might, Sometimes

  "Harrison Ford on fame, family and fortune: Retirement is for old people" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2013.

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• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Focus, Desire

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• Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Cake, Lines

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• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Misunderstood, East, Orientalism

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Views, Mind, Lessons

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• There's always mixed feelings about the work that I do. When you're playing a real person, that's another kind of responsibility. I have to say that every time that I have played a real person, even though I gave it everything I could, I feel like I misinterpreted trying to represent them. All the time I feel like I screwed it up! But I don't know if that's because I can't separate myself from it enough.

  Caleb Landry Jones

  Real, Responsibility, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

  Suzy Kassem

  War, Ideas, Doors

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mythology, Defined

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• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  Garrison Keillor

  Editors, People, Shy

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• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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• More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

  Woody Allen

  Men, Healthy, Despair

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

  Larry David

  Action, Sometimes

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• I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ironic, Stories

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• I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Talking, Games

  "Anna Kendrick Talks PITCH PERFECT, Singing Live on Set, Interacting More on Twitter, Her Love of Reddit, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

  Paul Weller

  People, Style, Jam

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

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• Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hate, Book, Sea

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• 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Eye, Names

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• Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Creativity, Fear And Loathing, Rest Of Your Life

  "Fictional character: Arthur". "I'm Not There", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wise, Mean, People

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

  Norman Geisler

  Views

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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