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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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• 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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• 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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• I believe there's more than this - that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. But yeah, I think something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.

  Flying Lotus

  Crazy, Believe, Afterlife

  Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2014.

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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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• Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

  Kandyse McClure

  Names, Starting Out, Firsts

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• We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate out all the confusing, external factors. Study it. Make sure you understand it. And in psychology that means the person studying the individual. But if you want to study our social nature, if you want to study processes that will lead to war and peace, you don't learn all that much by looking at the single individual. A lot of the important things are emergent facts about us, things that you can only see when you get a lot of us interacting.

  Jonathan Haidt

  War, Mean, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

  Edna Ferber

  Greatness, Texas, Habit

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Love Is, Always Trying

  Source: saseye.com

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• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  Rob Zombie

  Littles, Freak, Patient

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

  Aaron Belz

  Real, Writing, Fiction

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

  Lynda Barry

  High Heels, Guy, Firsts

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• I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

  Teddy Thompson

  Country, Brother, Rocks

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• I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.

  Tim Heidecker

  Taken, Thinking, Fire

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It could be confusing to people, but it's very simple to me, and it always has been - creating the thing that I want. In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands.

  Sophie

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.

  Lucas Mann

  Memories, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A hijra is someone who has transitioned from male to female, but we don't consider ourselves female because culturally we belong to a completely different section of society. Many hijras are castrated, but it's not compulsory. They say it's the soul which is hijra. We feel we are neither man nor woman, but we enjoy femininity. I enjoy womanhood, but I am not a woman. It's very confusing.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Men, Soul, Female

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

  Sally Phillips

  People, Posh, Wealthy

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• Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

  Gregg Harper

  Design, Challenges, Trying

  "Gregg Harper: I 'hunt' democrats". Interview with Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. October 20, 2009.

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• The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

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• A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  World, Search Engine, Engines

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• Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

  Michael Showalter

  Thinking, Love Is

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• In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Home, Males

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Strange, Complicated

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