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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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• 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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• When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

  Thomas Szasz

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just too confusing. Everybody claiming Lincoln as their own. And everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that all of us are enjoying today.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Opportunity, Years

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• For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Powerful, Army

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• Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Deals, Rationality, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Years, Eternity

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  Banksy

  Art, Idiot, Selling

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• I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work where I think I've challenged myself and no one's responded to it, and no one's interested in it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Done, Feels

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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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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• 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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• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Deceit

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• There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Documentaries, Looks

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

  Nicholson Baker

  Jobs, Confusion, Being True

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

  Yara

  Acting, Want, Historian

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• The average age of a model is fifteen years old. It's so crazy to me. And how confusing for men; they're like, "Well, I'm supposed to be attracted to that image" - like that's what it's designed for - "but it's a fifteen year old girl." I think it's a very confusing thing for every single person involved.

  Laura Benanti

  Girl, Crazy, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Self, Difficult

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. March 10, 2017.

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• Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Investing, Investment

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• "Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Rights, Race

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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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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