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

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

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.

Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

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

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

Sometimes being me is very confusing.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

The protests have absolutely nothing to do with the show. There's no question that the people who are trying to promote extreme religious agendas scan the media for opportunities to make a fuss. No one who saw the show objected to it on Christian grounds - when we were developing it there was no controversy at all. What happened is that when it was going to go on telly they thought, 'If we make a fuss by demonstrating outside the BBC then we can get lots of media coverage.' It's very confusing because it means people go to see it with the wrong expectations.

Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.

We still believe a single format would be less confusing and more efficient for retailers.

The outsized decline in starts in November is a bit confusing given the steady and elevated pace of permitting over the last several months.

The policy is confusing to the public, ... I think the policies ought to be the same for all precincts.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

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.

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.

What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

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.

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.

[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."

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

I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

We have created a plan here that is so difficult, so confusing and so hard for average people to understand that many seniors are struggling to try to figure out what is the best plan to turn to in order to protect themselves,

With 17 plans available in Wisconsin and 43 options within those plans, it is very confusing to most individuals. There are massive amounts of mail being sent out. Most people are just so overwhelmed that they are tossing it all out.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

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.

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.

We are also very interested in her ideas on immigration and her concept of possible employer sanctions. The Arizona Chamber is supporting measures to help small businesses comply with confusing federal immigration rules. We are opposed to new state-level sanctions that would further complicate the bewildering mess of current immigration laws.

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

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

What we're looking for is a sense of uniformity. It would be clearer and less confusing to be operating under similar standards.

Everything starts with our offensive line, ... They really did a nice job blocking. (BEA) runs some confusing fronts with there defense and our kids picked it up pretty well I thought.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

Confusing geographic name information is bringing inconveniences to post, first aid and other aspects in daily life, sometimes even endangering the safety of our people.

Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

While there are certain social graces or politeness which involve not hurting another's feelings ? if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all ? it is very confusing to children. The whole issue of honesty can be very frustrating for parents to teach.

The government better go to school and learn how confusing all that was for the jury.

The signs of slowing are few and far between. I think it's really the data between now and (the next meeting) that will determine whether it will be a quarter percentage or half percentage point hike but I think it would be confusing not to raise (rates).

The projected rate increase sends confusing signals to ratepayers and industrial customers.

There is not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution, ... We are in for a fairly confusing decade.

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

Rather than using the power of the federal government to negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry and reduce costs for recipients and taxpayers, we have been given an incredibly confusing concoction of options which primarily benefit the industry itself.

Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

So there's another motive for recommending these people, ... I think it's incredibly confusing for investors.

As a punter, you really have no idea. I have a pretty good feeling that I should be in the top one or two guys coming out. But it's been kind of a confusing process ---- I really have no idea.

Amazing our ability to ignore the apparent, confusing our sanityto adore the irrelevant.

They've given all this extremely confusing talk about unconventional methods over the past few months. There's substantial work to be done on the whole communication issue over there.

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.

Tennessee has one of the most confusing laws in the country.

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

Yet across the UK, thousands of road signs which give route directions, street names, limits or hazards are confusing or have disappeared, been knocked down, obscured with grime or foliage or have been damaged.

There are going to be in the short term terrifying, confusing moments (like) attacks on Iraqi police headquarters. The intent (by the opposition) is to produce destabilization, to cause people to say let's get out of here, they don't like us.... I don't think the U.S. is going to cut and run.

We had 150 people attend an information session in Rice Lake. That tells you how confusing it is. Organizations, such as the Wisconsin Retired Teachers Association, are holding their own meetings and making recommendations to their members.

Trying to be the type of player I want to be, it's mind-boggling. It's really confusing to me, but I know it's my problem.

This is a profound change in terms of the day-to-day. We've never had a situation where we've had to deal with three data streams daily. It's going to be a very confusing time for folks. . . . I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just complicated.

This is an incredibly large and confusing area of the earth; it's very easy to trust your racing instinct instead of the route book and your navigator ... I won't make that mistake again.

This is not only confusing for businesses, but it also leaves consumers unprotected. A single federal approach will create a common standard for protection that consumers and businesses can understand and count on.

In many ways, the disclosure that is required here is more customer-friendly disclosure than the annual percentage rate. It's not a confusing calculation, but an actual dollar amount.

India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers, ... Some firms have purposely confused the issue.

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers. Some firms have purposely confused the issue." ()

In an attempt to promote their dying network, they have maliciously couched his remarks in a manner that is confusing and leaves room for negative interpretation.

I'm just trying to get in the swing of things and learn the new system. It's not what we did last year, so it's real confusing at times.

I just want to be in compliance with the law. I want to make sure I have the right documents. It's more confusing than it used to be.

AT&T reported results this morning that appear to be slightly ahead of Street expectations, but we believe the somewhat confusing results will likely take investors some time to get their arms around.

The board is confusing public benefits with private property owners' rights and they will find out they will have to compensate the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts for that. This will be decided in circuit court and that's the sad part.

Nothing will ever be more confusing than the world we're leaving behind,

It's time to acknowledge that the TV ratings adopted more than eight years ago have proved to be a shabby, irrelevant, hopelessly confusing failure.

This is a very confusing time because all of our customers are seeing 15- to 20-percent cuts,

It's night and day. Mentally, it's just so much easier. Now you can just go out there and work on the physical and just react. This year, nothing is confusing to me.

The new specifications are confusing folks. It makes it hard to know where we stand when it comes to inventories.

Do I think I was born this way? No, ... And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are.

Armed with total-loss data and a better understanding of vehicle histories, both consumers and dealers will be able to steer clear of rebuilt wrecks and stolen vehicles. For too long, fraudulent resellers have relied upon a confusing 51-state titling regime to market rebuilt or stolen vehicles with clean titles.

The confusing nature of the sites and the restrictions that are involved make it only ideal for a very small percentage of travelers.

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce it was simple to setup and I was immediately able to start sending emails without having to deal with a confusing list import process.

Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce, I was immediately able to start sending emails without having to deal with a confusing list import process.

Buying an airfare is confusing enough now. This could make it even more confusing.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

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.

They want to ignore the facts, confusing right and wrong and want to shift responsibility onto others, and we express our strong dissatisfaction with this.

It's confusing because there are multiple ways to do high def and there's no industry standard. I wish it were a clearer, more user- friendly situation. There are so many options and creative ways.

It's confusing when things are said that are not completely accurate. Education is so important.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.