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I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.

I think it may seem confusing if you're not familiar with the process a government agency has to go through to utilize grant funding.

I think you're going to have other confusion from all of us. Many of us, we've been going to the same pharmacy for 30 years. I'm disappointed that we couldn't have had an absolute simple plan rather than this confusing thing.

I think you're confusing us with somebody who cares.

I think it's out of hand. Just the sheer volume of initiatives and the confusing campaigns have subverted the original intent. We should be able to vote on fairly significant things and be able to figure out what we're voting on without three hours of study.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

It is always good to have standards in place because it shows people what to agree to, in what is often a confusing world.

People are confusing some of the normal seasonal slowdown we get in June with being some type of secular change in the environment.

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

My sister was a twin, and the other baby died in childbirth, and I was three at the time, and I always kind of thought it haunted me. It was a weird thing. My dad was an ob-gyn, and so it was confusing that the other baby didn't come home from the hospital.

It doesn't take a lot to learn what gap you should hit by bringing eight guys when only seven are blocking. But when you have to protect and not (be familiar) with an offense or a coach for a long period of time, it becomes confusing in the line of fire.

I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.

It is confusing for the public. We're saying we need to protect a lot more habitat than the feds call for in their critical habitat plan for Puget Sound salmon.

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

That was a little bit confusing to me.

We have a tremendous opportunity right before us now to finish this job in this area. But that's going to take not just grudging American presence and kind of confusing signals about whether we've got one foot out the door. It's going to take real American participation with the Europeans to try to continue to stabilize the situation and ultimately bring Southeast Europe into NATO.

We anticipate that it could be some time before operators have a clear picture of insurance receipts, which could make earnings reports for operators confusing over the next year or longer.

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

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

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

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.

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.

[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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We just had to find a groove. They did a nice job. Obviously, they scouted us and made it confusing for us. Josh Taylor was covering Antonio much of the time.

We initially found it confusing and a little overwhelming.

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 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.

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 common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Advertising research is one-half frustration, one-half exclamation point, and one-half question-mark. If this adds up to more than 100 percent, it proves that mathematics and research sometimes gives confusing results.

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

As he got older he realized that he was considered black, which is confusing to him, because he is brown. We have tried to help him understand his heritage and encourage him to be proud to be a black person. We have taught him about Martin Luther King's dream and explained that we are the realization of his dream.

As has been well publicized, the golf industry has experienced dramatic shifts for the past 10 to 15 years. With the golf course construction boom of the 1990s, overdevelopment has become a real issue. While the golf economy is on the mend, there still are numerous challenges ahead. Under Tim's capable leadership, our new division is well equipped to work with owners and developers trying to navigate their way through these often confusing waters.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

They (NWS officials) in North Webster told me that the national computer models are so confusing right now that several local stations have issued formal complaints. For some reason, they just aren't coming together. Very few things are working out the way they would suggest." ()

They are doing great. It's been a confusing day for them for sure, but after a day they could settle down and feel at home.

They pound you defensively and are similar to our defense. It can be confusing so it's going to take a bit of work for us to be prepared.

There's been a good deal of confusing information, particularly with soy's effect on (breast) cancer risk.

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.

A confusing symbol or name will affect the stock if people don?t know it. It?s a little more likely it will get lost when doing research. As an investor relations guy, you want every small thing in your favor. As an investor, I?d much prefer AT&T being ATT.

It's easier and less confusing for the jury.

It was stressful and confusing but there's been so much excitement about it on campus and from the rest of the people involved. It's had a completely different atmosphere to it. People come back to school and they're excited.

It's a confusing heritage. I never know if I want to be running across the fields with no clothes on or sitting in the pub drinking Guinness.

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.

It's already confusing enough. Now that they can make changes, it'll be even more confusing.

It looks like the airlines are going to get free rein to do whatever they want. Buying an airfare is confusing enough now. This could make it even more confusing.

It may be confusing to the public that with the right hand we're accepting government money and with the left hand sometimes we're beating up the government.

It may be confusing at first, but as the market matures, consumers will figure it out.

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.

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

That's the confusing part of us. We're driving coach crazy with that. We had a chance to put that game away at a lot of points.

It's not a question of money. It's a question of confusing cost with value. We hear, 'These are tough times; we have all sorts of competing interests.' But do we save the original Declaration of Independence, or just the original Constitution? Is that a good place to be?

It's not a confusing problem for me because I can say McCarthy isn't pitching any more, that's it. I have enough guts to do that. I'm crazy enough to say that. But right now that's not the point. The point is what's the best for the team, not what's best for McCarthy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.