Confused Quotes - Page 31

• The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Able, Kind, Film

  "Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.

  Stevie Wonder

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  "Stevie Wonder: 'I never thought of being blind and black as a disadvantage'". www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Beautiful, Sex

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

  Chuck Jones

  Summer, Fog, Color

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Keeping Secrets, Space, Healthy

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• Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

  Samael Aun Weor

  People, Effort, Cognition

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• A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Men, Dying

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

  Dieter Rams

  Artist, People, Vacuums

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• Most parents hate to experience conflict, are deeply troubled when it occurs, and are quite confused about how to handle it constructively. Actually, it would be a rare relationship if over a period of time one person's needs did not conflict with the other's. When any two people (or groups) coexist, conflict is bound to occur just because people are different, think differently, have different needs and wants that sometimes do not match.

  Thomas Gordon

  Hate, Thinking, Two

  Thomas Gordon (1970). “Parent effectiveness training: the no-lose program for raising responsible children”, Plume

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• The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Stressed, Atheism, Facts

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• How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

  Hanoi Hannah

  War, Explanation, Your Presence

  "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, donnorth.com. October 17, 2016.

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• Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

  Peter Deunov

  Not Happy, Achieve, Great Science

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.112, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  Judgement, Who We Are, Accepting

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• A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

  Clark Kerr

  Balance, Sake, British

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.

  Romano Prodi

  Lying, Political Will, People

  "UK-U.S. ties puzzling, says Prodi". www.cnn.com. April 29, 2002.

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• The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Knowledge, Honor

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are minorities. Shouldn't you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population? That's a very white attitude, don't you think? I mean, you could take a white guy to Africa and he'd be like 'Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.'

  Louis C. K.

  New York, Attitude, Mean

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• Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Father, Giving, Free Will

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• The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beautiful, Flower, Teaching

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 317, 1895.

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• It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused

  Amit Abraham

  Difficult

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• When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

  Muso Soseki

  Art, Ice, Essence

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• When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

  Samiyam

  Mean, Track, Feelings

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• I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

  Alex Garland

  Country, Travel, Feelings

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• Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Love Life, Talking

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Feb 23, 2013

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