Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.
I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.
Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again
I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Declaration of Independence:
I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.
People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.
I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.
I can't help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been misconstrued as arrogant rather than the single-mindedness they really are.
I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.
People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.