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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre / Philosopher
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Dream
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Truth
Disenchantment
Dreamers
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During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.
Peter Hitchens / Journalist
Conservatism
Liberalism
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One character mistook me for the model and remarked 'That Man-Tan sure works wonders!' That ain't Man-Tan. I'm tan, man. From my head to my toes.
Nipsey Russell / Comedian
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Tan
Character Man Me
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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
Alan Alda / Actor
Handsome
Asked
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Grant
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Leon Jouhaux /
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The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.
Dana Loesch /
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Cash
Disappointment
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I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.
Woody Harrelson / Actor
Daughter
New York
Airports
Assault
Character
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Zombie
Airport
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For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.
Alex Pareene /
American Life
Borders
Changing The World
Diversion
Doctors
Life World Your
Life World People
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At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
Frank Cady / Actor
Character
Curtains
Juicy
Play
Real
Real Character
Roles
Naturally
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Meant
Character Me Start
Cue
Helped
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