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• I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

  Lily Allen

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

  Robbie Robertson

  Reality, Cities, Wheels

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• He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

  Bob Dylan

  Skills, Evil, Brain

  Song: License to Kill, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do, and I say, look-to be in my position and not say anything is a hell of a political thing. You need to think politically, otherwise you'll be one of these people who says, Oh, this person's saying this and that person's saying that, and I'm confused. And I say, yeah, because you want to be confused.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, Years

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• The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Challenges, Scientist, Programming

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• I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

  Michael Cera

  School, Feelings, Gone

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

  Hu Jintao

  Opening Up, Risk, Reform

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• Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Want, I'm Confused, Knows

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• Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.

  Alicia Keys

  Sex, Loving You, Feel Good

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• We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Sorry, Prayer

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Fans, Association

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• We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

  Alan Chalmers

  Levels, Ends, Higher

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Fighting, Winning, Levels

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Real, Quiet, Heard

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• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

  L. Neil Smith

  Thinking, People, Want

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.120, Macmillan

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• As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

  Jonas Mekas

  Eye, Way, Film

  "iPOP | This Week on the Scene: NYFF, Wall Street, “Dirty Girl” & More" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?

  Kristin Harmel

  Believe, Sky, Long

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• There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Average, Tolerance, Mind

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• The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Real, Self

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Worship, Sincerity, Weak

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• My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Mess, Areas

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• It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

  Robert Breault

  Gps, Driving, Miles

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Respect, Rights, People

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• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  Amy Lowell

  America, Sublime, Audacity

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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