Raveena Tandon Quotes

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Things definitely got out of perspective.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

They were cherry-picking the information that we provided to use whatever pieces of it that fit their overall interpretation. Worse than that, they were dropping qualifiers and distorting some of the information that we provided to make it seem even more alarmist and dangerous than the information that we were giving them.

It wasn't intelligence — it was propaganda. They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.