Confused Quotes - Page 39

• People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

  Cecily Strong

  Intelligent, People, Devil

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• There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

  Ali MacGraw

  Stars, Waiting, Attention

  "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.

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• I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dirty, Home, Thinking

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• Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

  Alice Walker

  Greed, Humanity, Ignorant

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.9, The New Press

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• My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Powerful, Self

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Issues, Knows

  "Madonna, Only More So". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 1, 1998.

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• When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Might, Way

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  Bill Gates

  Two, Special, World

  "Q&A: Bill Gates: Lessons Learned". Interview with Ina Fried, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Karma, Destiny, Locks

  "Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts". Book by Jean Smith, 1999.

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• Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

  Alain de Botton

  Ambition, Envy, Tangled

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2013

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• C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Running, Temptation

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.233, Harper Collins

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• I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Want, Understood

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• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Writing, Self, Helping

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• Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

  Leonard Susskind

  Different, May, Information

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• Sodas use “caramel coloring” to give them that dark, delicious look. Not to be confused with real caramel, caramel color is the single most used food coloring in the world. It is created by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure-a process that produces a cancerous substance called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI).

  Vani Hari

  Real, Dark, Color

  Vani Hari (2015). “The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days!”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused.

  David Letterman

  Keys, Two, Political

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• What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Talking

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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• Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

  Andrew Dominik

  World, Modern, Masculine

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• Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

  Mason Cooley

  Romance, Mentor, Pupils

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• I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

  Wallis Simpson

  Wisdom, Long, Understanding

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Lying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Sex, Prerogative

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.407

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• There are 300,000 new jobs and Bush said he's confused, 'Can I take credit for good news that I didn't even make up?'

  Craig Kilborn

  Jobs, New Job, News

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• I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Ears, Bells

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

  Bob Dole

  Trust, Government, Two

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