Confused Quotes - Page 9

• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Worship, Sincerity, Weak

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• When the thunder rumbles,
  Now the age of gold is dead.
  When the dreams we've clung to
  Trying to stay young,
  Have left us parched and old instead.
  When my courage crumbles,
  When I feel confused and frail,
  When my spirit falters on decaying altars
  And my illusions fail --
  I go on right then.
  I go on again.
  I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
  I go on.
  If tomorrow tumbles
  And everything I love is gone,
  I will face regret all my days, and yet
  I will still go on.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Determination, Regret

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• My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Mess, Areas

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• It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

  Robert Breault

  Gps, Driving, Miles

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• Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

  Andy Rooney

  Party, Politics, Able

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.94, PublicAffairs

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• Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

  Dick Gregory

  Respect, Rights, People

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• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  Amy Lowell

  America, Sublime, Audacity

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Men, Knowing

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• When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

  Ugo Betti

  Mean, Unique, Self

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  Barry Lopez

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 30, 2010.

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• As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Maturity, Grows

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Society, Goodwill, Perplexed

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• One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

  Xunzi

  Equality, Differences, People

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• I came, I saw, I was confused.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Saws, Disorder

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• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

  Thom Gunn

  Aids, Annihilation, My Thoughts

  "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Women, Movement, Sexuality

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

  Chuck D

  Real, Mean, People

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• People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Boys, Race

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• I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Emotional, Confusion

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

  Max Greenfield

  Reality, Giving, Doe

  "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

  Cliff Burton

  Crazy, Looks, Back When

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• Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

  Traian Basescu

  Ethnicity, Citizens, Wonder

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  Gary Ackerman

  Philosophy, Hockey, Thinking

  "A Congressional Exit Interview". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

  Lily Allen

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

  Robbie Robertson

  Reality, Cities, Wheels

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