A Quote by Criss Jami
When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
I'm willing to be misunderstood. I've never had a problem being misunderstood by a portion of people on any particular issue if it makes for that much more of a special experience for those who understand.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?
I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.
Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.
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