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Most people think the Shakers are in Pennsylvania. They tend to confuse them with the Amish.
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.
I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.
People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.
I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.
One must not confuse the fight against corruption with the persecution of the rich or wealthy families.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
People confuse integrity with the idea of a high moral standing. I think integrity is saying you're going to do something and doing it.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.
That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.
The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
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 don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.
One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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.
Trump has broken the news system because he has found ways to go out there, get attention, say a lot of things that are untrue and confuse the public.
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.
Japan is a country that works well. The trains, buses, and planes stick to their timetables. When you try to change the schedule of anything, it can confuse.