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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Suicide, College

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, People, Stupidity

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 13, 2008.

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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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• I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Thinking, Self

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• I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: medium.com

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• There are Muslims, who are moderate Muslims. And there's more of them than there are radicalized Muslims and are using Islam in its misinterpreted ideology.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Islam, Ideology, Moderates

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Autism, Guilt

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Reality, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Simple, Trying

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  People, Way, Made

  "Jesse Eisenberg explains why he hates watching his own movies". Interview by Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. March 31, 2016.

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• What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Facts, Climate

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