Confusing Quotes - Page 15

• No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Pain, Loss, Long

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Because I'm in a modern studio, there are so many possibilities - you can do so much. So it's sometimes a little bit confusing for me to actually see which way should I choose.

  Trentemøller

  Littles, Way, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Sad Times, Very Happy

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

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• When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short moments of sexuality, which makes it very confusing for the censors. If censors were merely human beings who watch a film ["Aquarius"] and come out with a conclusion about what they saw, then there wouldn't be a problem.

  Sonia Braga

  Strong, Impact, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I can see he thinks he's the ultimate creation, and he seems to believe every woman here is his Eve, created from his ribcage for him to enjoy. I'm both aroused and infuriated, and this is the most confusing feeling I've ever felt in my life.

  Katy Evans

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Remy". Book by Katy Evans, 2013.

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Believe, Heart

  "Emma Watson Had Emma Stone Speech Envy Before MTV Trailblazer Award". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2013.

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• If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

  Todd Gitlin

  Creation, Myth, Ifs

  Todd Gitlin, Liel Leibovitz (2010). “The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

  Elliott Sober

  Skulls, Order, Tests

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Real, Desire, Tiny

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Moving, Artist, Men

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  People, Complexes

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Mom, Book

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• You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Quitting, Madness, Mental Health

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel”, p.165, Macmillan

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• On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from generation to generation that we don't want. We could also have picked up loose energies or entities from places we visit or live, and this could be very confusing. It could reinforce or even produce addictions and cravings that don't really belong to us.

  Robert Moss

  Psychics, Confusion, Addiction

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Museums, Texas, Borders

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

  Paul Banks

  Perspective, People, Everyday

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

  Casey Spooner

  Confusion, Difficult, Positive Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

  Guido Palau

  Fashion, Easy, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Art, Hate, Eye

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• People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

  Sam de Jong

  Growing Up, People, Eras

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.

  Brad Williams

  People, Insane, Groups

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.

  Brad Williams

  Opposites, Knows

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

  Scott Aaronson

  Consciousness, Mechanic, Quantum

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• I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.

  Ralph Ellison

  Business, Saws, Bears

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.193, Vintage

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