Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."
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Confusing
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Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?"
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought."
Vaclav Havel
Politician, Playwright
"This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor."
Don King
Promoter
"When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing."
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"Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there."
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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."
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"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
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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."
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"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
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"To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true."
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"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."
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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."
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"The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error."
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"'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty."
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"I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else."
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"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
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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."
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"A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term."
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"Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake."
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"That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group."
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"Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody."
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"Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes."
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"Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
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