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My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

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.

It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

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

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

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.

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

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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.

[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.

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.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.