Carson Wentz Quotes

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

The media can't get anything straight.

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong.

I have frequently been misrepresented. I don't hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.

A lot of stories that aren't true get out into the mainstream, and it's hard to correct that. People want to hear what they already believe.

Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't look for trouble.

Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media.