#distort

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

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Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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The right can distort anything it wants. ↗

— David Brock

#distort #right #wants

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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