Confusing Quotes - Page 18

• When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Band, Want

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

  Chelsea Martin

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• I would want people to know that they don't have to hate their body and don't have to be afraid of it, but that it's also okay to feel uncomfortable with it at times. The body positivity conversation often gets sort of oversimplified and flattened into, "Yay! Everyone has to love everything about their body all the time!" And that's not realistic, that's not how bodies work, that's not how emotions work. It's fine to have these kinds of confusing and conflicting feelings.

  Lindy West

  Hate, Positivity, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Why can't we talk about sex just to talk about it? Because it's fun and silly and gross and exciting and disturbing and confusing and totally hot, sometimes all at once.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Sex, Fun, Silly

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

  John Pilger

  Confused, Government, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

  Enya

  Thinking, Stories, Too Much

  KSCA Interview with Merilee Kelly, January 18, 1996.

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• We are in an extremely dangerous situation. It was ignorant and ahistorical for Donald Trump to say that the EU will dissolve. He is a man of very little historical understanding. For example, when he accused his own intelligence community of using Nazi tactics against him, he was actually confusing the Nazis with East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Trump also has no idea that for 70 years, it has been U.S. policy to support those who want to unite Europe. It is very dangerous that he is turning his back on Europe now.

  Anthony Glees

  Men, Support, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.

  Naomi Watts

  Pain, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

  Anne Enright

  Sex, Grief, Feelings

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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• It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

  John Cena

  Mean, Wwe, Rating

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• When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• The thing that can get confusing is you think, is this guy really a good player or does he just seem that way based on the way that they are playing. That takes longer to figure out, if they really are a good player or they just seem like one [bad].

  Daniel Negreanu

  Player, Thinking, Guy

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

  Mark Lawrence

  Book, Character, Reactions

  "Peter Orullian Interviews The Mark Lawrence" by Shawn Speakman, www.unboundworlds.com. June 2, 2015.

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• Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

  Noel Tichy

  Cat, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Sex is great, if you are in a relationship. Otherwise, I find sex actually not so interesting. Without a relationship it is confusing.

  Tom Cruise

  Sex, Interesting, Ifs

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, World, Today

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• Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

  Errol Morris

  Confused, Real, Thinking

  Interview wih Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Growth, Important

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Kids, People

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• Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

  Daniel Goleman

  Sanity, Unruly, Needed

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• Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  Mary Balogh

  Regret, Opposites, Numbers

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• If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

  Joost Meerloo

  Confused, Men, Civilization

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• Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Confused, Creativity, Doors

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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