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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring. -- Terry Pratchett
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. -- Roy H. Williams
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. -- Hermione Gingold
I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief. -- Madonna Ciccone
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. -- Robert Genn
Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out. -- Peter Berg
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians. -- Nick Goepper
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. -- Rachel Held Evans
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself - all-knowing. -- David Berg
Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship. -- Annette Gordon-Reed
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change. -- John Green
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. -- Nathaniel Branden
Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence. -- Vernon Richards
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. -- George Orwell
Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water. -- Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences. -- Peter McWilliams
Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. -- Bill Gates
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth. -- Kofi Annan
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles. -- Nathan Seiberg
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. -- Criss Jami
Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do. -- S. E. Hinton
Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. -- Meg Rosoff
Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. -- Bonnie Jensen
Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players. -- Danny Ozark
Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. -- George Watsky
Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. -- Mike Royko
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs. -- Larry Gelbart
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. -- Terry Pratchett
Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.... -- Peter McWilliams
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power. -- Susan Piver
Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time. -- David Benioff
Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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