Confusing Quotes - Page 10

• When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Innovation, Doe

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

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• My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

  Taryn Manning

  Dad, Choices, Gone

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Want

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Believe, Government, Democracy

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.

  John C. Reilly

  Fans, Life Is, Bigs

  Source: www.avclub.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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• Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing.

  Ted Cruz

  Trump, Hard

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?

  John S. Dickerson

  People, Scary, Conservative

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

  Charlyne Yi

  Love Is, Beast, Compatibility

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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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• I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.

  Amber Heard

  Oil, Yards, Rigs

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Playboy Interview, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• [The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."

  Donna Karan

  Thinking, Bored, Style

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure time. Time is confusing to me. That's why I do a lot of manipulations of time in my books, in part because an orderly time is physically difficult for me to conceive of in my brain.

  Lucy Corin

  Memories, Book, Brain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.

  Chelsea Martin

  Makeup, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Order, Comforting, Scare

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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

  Sally Phillips

  People, Posh, Wealthy

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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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• 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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