Confused Quotes - Page 6

• Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search.  Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned.  And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Reality, Mind

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Janet Maslin

  Oscars, Nobel Peace Prize, Has Beens

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• Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

  Michel Foucault

  Expression, Breathe, Obscure

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• Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Memories, Father

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

  Jack White

  Creative, Towns, Imagine

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

  Michel Gondry

  Inspiration, Creativity, Thinking

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness.

  Matthew Collings

  Design, Balance, Want

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• We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Imagination, Doe, Lucky

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

  Woodrow Wilson

  Age, Force, Disturbed

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center. Even people who are doing things that are nefarious - it's often out of confusion. I know that it's tough to be a human whether you're good or bad. I'm acutely aware of that. If that comes through, then I'm really grateful.

  Jimmi Simpson

  Hurt, Grateful, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have to decide where the line is in such a complicated place like Saudi Arabia. I was so confused by the place - there's no simple story. It's a place that is really sensitive to how it is judged, particularly by people from the West. So in the end I thought: I'm just going to take the reader on my journey to try and understand this odd place.

  Olivia Arthur

  Simple, Journey, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Thank you for liking Sin City. I can completely understand if you watch that movie and then I talk about single-use plastic bags and you're a little confused, maybe put off: "You should be talking about machine guns! In a sexy way!" I'm sorry, that's not me.

  Rosario Dawson

  Sexy, Sorry, Gun

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

  Samantha Power

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• Just because you're a solo artist playing guitar, that doesn't make it folk. People get a bit confused about these things. There's so many more aspects to my music than that. Earlier on in my career, people tried to push me in that direction. They kind of wanted me to be a folky princess, which was just never gonna happen. I don't understand quite why it is, but it is very irritating that it's still happening.

  Marika Hackman

  Princess, Artist, People

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• The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Two, People

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• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Valentines Day, Passion

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  Bono

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

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• I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

  Tim Burton

  Real, People, Understanding

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• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  Jackie Chan

  Not Sure, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Cute, People

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

  Kurt Cobain

  People, Answers, Truthful

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• Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

  Tim Cook

  Thinking, Goal, Focus

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• Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

  Ice Cube

  Movie, Real, Actors

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• Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Mistake

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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