Kurt Braunohler

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

American Comedian

Robert Herjavec

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

Canadian Businessman

Richard Masur

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

American Actor

Kay Cannon

On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.

American Writer

Rocco Buttiglione

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

American Politician

Johann Lamont

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Scottish Politician

Stephen Sondheim

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

American Composer

Jules Verne

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

French Author

Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

British Writer

Gary Oldman

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

English Actor

Easily confused with 'misunderstood', which means not grasped clearly.

Common Confusion

Use 'You might be mistaken' to gently correct someone.

Polite Correction

'I was mistaken' shows you acknowledge your own error.

Self-Admission

Use it when someone is incorrectly recognized as another person.

Wrong Identity

It describes an error in fact, not just a different interpretation.

Factual Correction

Being mistaken for someone else can sometimes result in a positive experience.

Not Always Negative

 Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities design the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

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 at least once in their life. This panic-inducing episode of coming face-to-face with the creatures from your nightmares can last anywhere from seconds to minutes and may involve visual or auditory hallucinations of an evil spirit or an out-of-body feeling like you're floating. Some have even mistaken sleep paralysis

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 And it's not because they thought it would make us better than anyone else it's simply because they wanted to keep us alive. All of my black friends were raised with the same message, the talk, given to us when we became old enough to be mistaken for a nail ready to be hammered to the ground,

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 ever mistaken that face for that of a mermaid but evidently those boys had been on the boat a little too long but nonetheless these experiences for me were very special you know being alone out there is a chance to see interesting social interactions and behaviors things

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 because it assumes, it's based on a mistaken assumption that everything that can be invented has been invented. In fact, he says, it's innovation that will keep the West ahead of the developing world, with the more sophisticated, innovative tasks being done

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 Produced in several countries and shipped to plastic manufacturing plants the world over, nurdles often escape during the production process, carried by runoff to the coast or during shipping when they're mistakenly tipped into the waves.

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 except for the fact that if you think that there is a limit to the amount of anonymous sex we can have on this planet you are sadly mistaken who's your daddy I don't know I'm a tinder baby okay that one won't make you too

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 their young are adopted by ants the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant larva is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it

Weirdest Animal...

 the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant lava is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once

Beautiful Butterfly...

 at first sight it might be mistaken for a dead animal this is rafflesia the corpse flower a meter across it's the world's biggest

Mistaken

To be wrong or incorrect in understanding, judgement or action.

Often appears as...

To wrongly identify someone or something.

Often appears as...

Common Confusion

Polite Correction

Self-Admission

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