Misleading Narratives Quotes

False history gets written every day.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

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

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

I woke up and I just saw all these things, like 'RIP Skai Jackson,' and I'm like, 'Why do people think I'm dead? Like, what happened? Where did this come from?' And then one of my fans told me it was some girl who started it. And for me, that's just like not funny at all.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Social media is the wrong place to judge what India is thinking about.

Speculation replaces fact. It's very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.