Perception : (15)

" I think it’s very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad. " - Ricky Williams

" There are the guys that wear the white hats and they’re painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me – even though they don’t really know me. " - Patrick Reed

" I get it that the media is going to show the worst part, because that’s the part that people want to see. But they have not represented Israel or Palestine, however people want to call it, they haven’t represented it well at all. Go to the beach! You won’t know this place from California. " - GloZell

" America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. " - Djimon Hounsou

" I always loved Evander Holyfield because people think of him as a small heavyweight, but of course from the waist up he was a pretty good-sized guy, but he just had these little skinny legs and no booty and it made him look like he was small. " - Michael Buffer

" If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you’re unlikely to find them witty. " - Rosamund Pike

" People always remark on how I’m not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life. " - Ann Reinking

" The conversation on Twitter and the way people are in the world are very different. " - Jon Lovett

" Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black. " - Apollonia Kotero

" To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions. " - Robert Irwin