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• I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx - I'm still confused as to why retailers haven't ripped them off yet and done it well. It's because they don't understand the basics behind it. I love Spanx. I'm wearing 'em right now!

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Boys, Clothes

  "Beth Ditto wants to start the 'IKEA" of plus-sized clothing lines" by Darwinl, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2012.

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• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  Lana Del Rey

  Believe, Office, Desire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

  Al Franken

  People, Majority, Middle

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• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Giving, Confusing

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• Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

  John Gay

  Love, Fleeing, Thee

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• When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

  Josh Groban

  Juniors, Junior High, Remember

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• I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

  Bill Hicks

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• Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

  David Hockney

  Years, Perspective, People

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• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  Tony Kushner

  Love Is, Play, Way

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Our World, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Mean, Men, Typical

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• The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Fashion, Real, Artist

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
  producing a confused agreeable mass
  of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

  Arnold Bennett

  Thinking, Sound, Details

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

  Rakim

  Religious, Religion, Easy

  Song: Mystery

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• Psychologically, I’m very confused… But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Feels

  "Fictional Character: Klara Novak". "The Shop Around the Corner", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

  Joan Halifax

  Wise, Suffering

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• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

  Dimitri Simes

  Simple, Simple Living

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ducks, Stunned

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Hands, Long

  William Tecumseh Sherman (2015). “Home Letters of General Sherman”, p.130, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Book, Two, Glasses

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Childhood, Feelings

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• When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

  Dogen

  Moving, Eye, Practice

  "Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries".

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• Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

  Gregg Popovich

  Years, Two, Stills

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• The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

  Linus Pauling

  War, Problem, Communism

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• The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

  Porphyry

  Christian, Vicious, Has Beens

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