A Quote by Gore Vidal

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

Oscar Wilde

Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.

Antony Hegarty

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

Jamie Campbell Bower

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

Geoffrey Canada

I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

Daphne Guinness

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

Jaya Bachchan

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Mahatma Gandhi

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

Dash Mihok

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Stanley Kubrick

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Robert Fisk

I'm very used to being misquoted.

Konkona Sen Sharma

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Bob Monkhouse

I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.

Margaret Trudeau

There's only one thing that's kind of hard about being a wife or a girlfriend of somebody in this business. It's that really the only people that you really know are musicians.

Bebe Buell

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

Daniel Bryan

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