Confused Quotes - Page 17

• I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
  Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
  It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
  Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

  Lauryn Hill

  Struggle, Games, Play

  Song: EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lau, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

  Angie Harmon

  Believe, Thinking, America

  "Part Two: Angie Harmon Defends Bristol Palin's Pregnancy, Says GOP Is More Understanding" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 1, 2009.

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• Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Wall, Winning, Odds

  Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Creativity, Sleep, Eye

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• I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Men, Roots

  John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)

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• I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

  CM Punk

  Jobs, People, Fake

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

  Ray Lewis

  Trying, Refs, Justify

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

  Mark Nepo

  Believe, Practice, Enlightenment

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• [When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Memories, Moving, Book

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• The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Expression, Feelings

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

  Lydia Davis

  Lonely, Pyramids, Labyrinth

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Clueless, Character, Pride

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• When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.

  Bill Porter

  Mean, Meditation, Form

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• Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

  Craig Thompson

  Song, Spring, Fall

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• When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

  Michael Tippett

  Use, Way, Term

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• Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

  Martha Beck

  Worry, Lessons, Matter

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• Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

  Tom Allen

  Lying, Ocean, Mystery

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• The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Father, Son

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• I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to all countries. There are some human interests, or we need also international cooperation. We've sometimes confused it with dictation.

  George Soros

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  School, Rocks, Years

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

  Eva Mendes

  Culture, Visibility, Ridiculous

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

  Mickey Rourke

  Boxing, House, Gloves

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

  Nick Hanauer

  Government, People, Action

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Men, Years, Two

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

  Solon

  Simple, Law, States

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