There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse ‘civic’ and ‘civil,’ and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?
No one reads my books until they’re finished because I don’t want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‘What does he do? What does he do?’ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.
Aldo needed to feel McGregor out. Coming right at him ran into McGregor’s game. I thought he’d start by taking him down and confuse him a little. Maybe he had all that stuff planned, but one combo, and Aldo got caught. That happens, especially with a guy as talented and precise and full of power as Conor.
I never want to turn something down because I’m afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
When people see ‘bisexual,’ they still confuse it with promiscuity, which is so wrong. So I was so pumped to be the first bisexual on Riverdale and just normalize that for viewers.
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
We confuse activity with progress, and that’s always dangerous, especially in war.
The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people – who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
I don’t have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.
I think it would be a lot easier if I said, ‘I feel like a dude,’ but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It’s exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.
People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook – qualities they believe they’ve simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.
My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
People confuse ‘pretty’ with good cinematography.
People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven’t tried to uncomplicate myself. I’ve sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don’t know if it’s working all the time, but I’d rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don’t confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
L.A. fashion is like lip injections. That confuses me. That’s become not just a thing. It’s become fashion, part of your outfit. But hey, to each his own.
I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you’re rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
The Trump administration wants to continue to delegitimize institutions like the mainstream media. The more they can confuse the lines between facts and truth, legitimate and illegitimate sources of information, the more they will be able to brainwash the small segment of the public they care about reaching.
I think it’s very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They’re different issues.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
The new, retro pants that are pulled up very high confuse me. I feel like I’m in the eighties. I wasn’t even alive in the ’80s, but if these pants are any indication of what it was like, I’m sure I wouldn’t like that era.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame… which is not necessarily true.
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like ‘If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.’
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don’t like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them – I’m making people listen to the ‘Final Fantasy’ soundtrack, and they’re like, ‘Why is this happening? Let’s just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.’
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody’s documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they’ll have, in addition to all the print material, they’ll have all these pictures to look at.
People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump’s strategic patience with weakness.
While households that make anywhere from $48,000 to $250,000 can call themselves middle class, to group such a wide range of incomes under one label, as politicians love to do, is to confuse the term entirely.
I don’t know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I’m not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I’m concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I’ve never been a networker or I’ve never been very social.
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that’s not something you can stand behind – it confuses me. I think it’s a really great word.
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren’t competitive.
Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.
You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
