False Representation Quotes

These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.

People say that it’s easy to lie with statistics. Well it’s a lot easier to lie without them.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.

A lot of people think that celebrities are fake, and a couple of them are.

Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names…. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.

Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.