Zitat des Tages über Verwechseln / Confuse:
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
Never confuse motion with action.
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.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
Don't confuse facts with reality.
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.
I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.
Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?
I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times, they confuse VCs with their friends.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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.
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
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.
There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.
In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.