Confusing Quotes - Page 6

• There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hate, Lines, Emotion

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

  Natalie Zea

  Saws, Actresses, Schedules

  Source: collider.com

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• The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

  R. K. Milholland

  Stupid, Writing, Keys

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• Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

  Douglas Adams

  Lovers, Plates, Print

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• I think as this generation of electronic musicians goes on, popular electronic music will be more and more accepted. It's gonna get less confusing. You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, Rap, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was arguing a lot with my record label during that whole time, so maybe they all affected each other. This record, Mondo Amore, came out of a time that was really heartbreaking and confusing, and that's why I switched the sound up a lot, to make it sound a little bit grittier and more raw.

  Nicole Atkins

  Breakup, My Boyfriend, Heartbreaking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While you're in the moment of anything that's confusing in your life, you're in the moment, and you have to figure it out. You can go up or down. And I just kept working on the higher road, and trying. I got very involved with medication.

  Linda Blair

  Trying, Down And, Moments

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• Sometimes being me is very confusing.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Being Me, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Scott (2008). “Bloom”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

  Renee Fleming

  Jobs, Suggestions, Knees

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.57, Penguin

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• OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

  Bill Gates

  Dad, Names, My Family

  "The Bill Gates Interview: A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Facts

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• Scientists in Australia are working on making biodegradable car parts out of hemp. This might get confusing. When someone says, roll up the window, they might mean, roll up the window!

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Australia, Car

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• I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

  John Vanderslice

  Florida, Sound, Records

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

  Chaz Bono

  Pressure, Fit, Gender

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• If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. “You share a whistle?” Trevanion said in disbelief. “Do you have a problem with that?” Finnikin asked. “I have a few whistles,” Lucian murmured. “Very confusing sometimes.” “Whistles are meant for combat,” Trevanion said. “Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.

  Melina Marchetta

  Problem, Sometimes, Share

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Details, Elimination

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

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• One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

  Elif Safak

  Mistake, Acceptance, Past

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• Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

  David Levithan

  Would Be, Complicated, Togetherness

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• I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

  Erlend Loe

  People, Use, Problem

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

  Michael Sandel

  Exercise, Roles, Dominion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

  Andy Rooney

  Writing, Punctuation Marks, Use

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney (Foreword, p. 13), 2003.

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• Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

  Chris Martin

  People, Middle, Worst

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Confusion, Drug

  Source: medium.com

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• It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

  Brad Williams

  People, Comedian

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

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