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• What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Choices, Clear, Feels

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• The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

  Andrew Marr

  Modern Journalism, Way, Answers

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• The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

  John Searle

  Analysis, Speech, Certain

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Vanity, Wind

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• That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

  Chris Abani

  Growing Up, Believe, Loss

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• Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Moving, Loss

  "How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

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• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

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• Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

  Charlyne Yi

  Love Is, Beast, Compatibility

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• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  William Safire

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

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• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Wise, Language, Nonsensical

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• Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

  Julian Fellowes

  Friends, Mistake, People

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• Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what's happening as quickly as possible. You don't want to start the story by confusing the reader.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Writing, Space

  David Gerrold (2001). “Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, Writers Digest Books

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

  Jenna Fischer

  Dream, Expectations, Forever

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Modern Life, Life Is, Modern

  "Woman In The News; Liberal Democrat From Queens" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 1984.

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• It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

  Mickey Rooney

  Children, Wife, House

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• People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

  Johan Huizinga

  Truth, Past, People

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• A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Real, Doe

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!

  Gayle King

  Eye, Blue, Lists

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• Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Art, People, Guilt

  "Jesse Eisenberg Talks WHY STOP NOW?, NOW YOU SEE ME, RIO 2, Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE, and Being Mistaken for Mark Zuckerberg at the Olympics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2012.

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• But down in Florida in the early voting, there were computer glitches, confusing ballots, long lines and chaos. And when President Bush heard about this, he said, 'Mission accomplished!'

  David Letterman

  Florida, Long, Voting

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Confusion, Use, Newspapers

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• As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Sex, Trying, Stomach

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• Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Special, Causes, Common

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