Confused Quotes - Page 34

• Some seek fame cause they need validation,
  Some say hating is confused admiration.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Validation

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• How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Reflection, Reality

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• It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.

  Abby Johnson

  Choices, Pro Life, Abortion

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• And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Thinking, Awkward, Relaxation

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• Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in a groveling mode, mistakenly believing they have to receive forgiveness from others. Forgiveness offers more than a reprieve granted to us by another person. True forgiveness is a process of giving up the false for the true and allows us to rid our thinking of rigid ideas. We can develop the flexibility to change our mind and our behavior patterns to higher and greater expressions and find new avenues to freedom.

  John Templeton

  Giving Up, Believe, Thinking

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• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fashion, Mistake, Depth

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• The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Statistics, Orthodoxy, Should

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confusing, Alternatives, Sometimes

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Keys, Race

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• Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

  David Lloyd George

  Speech, Tests, Precision

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• 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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