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• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

  Thom Gunn

  Aids, Annihilation, My Thoughts

  "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Boys, Race

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• I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Emotional, Confusion

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

  Traian Basescu

  Ethnicity, Citizens, Wonder

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  Gary Ackerman

  Philosophy, Hockey, Thinking

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Challenges, Scientist, Programming

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• I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

  Michael Cera

  School, Feelings, Gone

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Track, Stories

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• Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

  Hu Jintao

  Opening Up, Risk, Reform

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• Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Want, I'm Confused, Knows

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• We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Sorry, Prayer

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Fans, Association

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• All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Believe, Able

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about who you have intimate contact with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Sexuality

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• I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Fighting, Oil

  "Landrieus on relationship between Louisiana, oil". "Meet the Press" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

  Cristin Milioti

  Play, One Day, Done

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Once Star Cristin Milioti". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

  Denise Mina

  Hate, Spring, Moving

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Real, Trying, Together

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• Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.

  Darwin Ortiz

  Fooled, Audience

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• I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

  Lily Allen

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Teaching, Greatness, Training

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin

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• The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

  Dennis Merzel

  Buddhist, Confusion, Mind

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• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Confusion, Soul

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.440, GENERAL PRESS

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• Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

  Henry Ford

  Progress, Fever, Spirit

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• We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Leadership, Spiritual, Confusion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.126, Penguin Books India

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