Confused Quotes - Page 38

• We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

  Tim Costello

  Cost Of Living, Perspective, Lifestyle

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• Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

  Adyashanti

  Sad, Anger, Thinking

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• My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

  Anna Kavan

  Ideas, Mind, Peculiar

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Giving, Black, Gold

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• From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Memories, Men, Ruins

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• Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

  Joko Beck

  Hurt, Real, Moving

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• I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

  Spike Jonze

  Lonely, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Spike Jonze and Max Records Interview WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. October 4, 2009.

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• Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

  Chico Xavier

  Ungrateful, Persons, Angry

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• Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Believe, Names

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• Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Tired, Annoyed

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• To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

  Mark Galli

  Cheesy, Honor, Sophisticated

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.118, Baker Books

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• I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.

  Patty Griffin

  Love, Song, People

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• Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

  Gore Vidal

  Love, Hate, Mind

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• Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

  Norman Mailer

  Groups, Answers, Reaching

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• The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Believe, Native American

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

  Pauly Shore

  Trying, Figures, Made

  "Hey Buuuuddy: A Pauly Shore GQ&A". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.

  Kevin Spacey

  Suicide, Bullying, Teenager

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• But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!

  Robert Graves

  Good Luck, Moon, Giving

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• As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the medias power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Beautiful, Country, Strong

  "Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Party, Mean, People

  "Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Destiny, Years

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Want, Wonder

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

  Jimmi Simpson

  Hurt, Thinking, Sometimes

  "Q&A: Jimmi Simpson on Playing House of Cards' Creepy Hacker". Interview with Mark Maurer, www.esquire.com. February 19, 2014.

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• When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.

  Mike Piazza

  Games, Trying, Bats

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