Mistaken Quotes - Page 9

• It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leader, Principles, Noble

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Long, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't.

  Richard Masur

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

  Unknown

  Pain, Teaching, Helping Others

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• I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

  Erykah Badu

  Messages, Emotion, Sometimes

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• If I'm not mistaken, that relationship [of Barack Obama] with Mr.[Bill] Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Sorry, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Believe, Grateful, Giving

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

  Wendy Williams

  Feet, Thank God, Cry

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.

  Joanna Lohman

  Boys, Hair, Body

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• I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

  Adam Rex

  Kids, Nerd, Outgoing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

  Brad Williams

  Mean, Might, Now And Then

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

  Junius

  Political, Politics, Holy

  'Public Advertiser' 19 December 1769, Letter 35

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• If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Renaissance, Architect

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• It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

  Allen W. Wood

  Communication, Partners, Investigation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.

  David Bennun

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Would Be, Opinion

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• If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.

  Mark Shields

  Country, May, Sides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

  Indira Gandhi

  Children, Heart, Should Have

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

  Unknown

  Believe, Despair, Nihilism

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Writing, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

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• I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the
  other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Men, Opposites

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Solitude, Society

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• We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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