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Early youth is a baffling time.
Bruce Catton / Historian
Youth
Baffling
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson / Biologist
Profound
Sometimes
Speech
Baffling
Concept
Wrong
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I don't think I'm ever forgiven for anything, which is baffling because I'm not on TV that much.
Morrissey /
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Baffling
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The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Henry Miller / Writer
Legal
Citizens
Everyday
Legal System
Mystery
Priests
Baffling
Rituals
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Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
Moby / Singer-Songwriter
Connecticut
Diversity
Growing Up
House
Los Angeles
Extreme
Alike
Angeles
Baffling
Colonial
Houses
Looked
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Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
Lionel Shriver / Journalist
Daily Life
Baffling
Integral
Integral Part
Letting
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I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.
Lynda Carter / Actress
Gay Community
Men And Women
Men Women Community
Baffling
Women Men Community
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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama / 44Th U.s. President
Fame
Minutes
Surprising
Wife
Baffling
Somewhat
Extended
Longer
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Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Amazement
Angry
Secular
Day Sometimes Every Day
Baffling
Fan
Mysteries
Queue
Wake
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To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
Lukas Foss / Composer
Dramatic
Ideas
Together
Baffling
Music Together Me
Combined
Mozart
Psychologically
Shakespeare
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
Edward Dahlberg / Novelist
Men
Driven
Fewer
Lunacy
Mad
People
Sane
Acts
Baffling
Wits
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Modelling is a bit baffling when you're 18. I just thought, 'Brilliant - I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.' I didn't think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.
Sophie Dahl / Author
Modelling
Runway
Signing
Baffling
Poster
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When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
Steve Krug /
Site
Baffling
Hidden
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It's one of these baffling things about the world we live in that there is still homelessness, and it's good that there are charities like Social Bite that go all out to help and make a difference.
Amy Macdonald /
Homelessness
Baffling
Bite
Charities
Make A Difference
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
Kate Atkinson / Writer
Courses
Creative
Creative Writing
God Love
Baffling
Explain
Slightly
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.
Prince Charles /
Trust
Science
Technology
Blind
Climate
Modern World
Science And Technology
World
Science Technology World
Accept
Baffling
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My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.
John Banville / Novelist
Cold
Filled
Warm
Work Me People
Baffling
Sentiment
Frequently
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There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
Denise Mina / Crime Writer
Book
Children
Code
Midnight
Reading
Great Always People
Baffling
Giant
Great Children People
People Say
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Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.
Arthur Lewis /
Predictable
Simple
Affects
Baffling
Bold
Follows
Physical
Physical World
Regular
Ways
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I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and surprise me to find out that any of these people were lying. Still, addiction is cunning and baffling and you never know.
Drew Pinsky / Internist
Addict
Addiction
Cunning
Lying
Peers
Recovering
Sideways
Surprise
Baffling
Occasionally
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Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.
Denis O'hare / Actor
Awards
Blood
Mean
Range
Baffling
Production
Production Values
True Blood
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It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.
Stella Young / Comedian
Depends
Melbourne
Struggle
Accessible
Considered
Baffling
Basis
Short
Facilities
World City Me
Suppose
Livable
Regular Basis
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Adjustment
Answers
Artistic
Dilemma
Baffling
Correct
Hemingway
No Question
Smoothly
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There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Average
Boxes
Everyday
Everyday Life
Gadgets
Magic
Pure
Life Alone Time
Baffling
Comprehend
Expert
Gulf
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Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems.
Rose Kennedy / Philanthropist
Abnormal
Handicapped
Midst
Physically
Mentally
Avenue
Baffling
Difficulties
Fervently
Finds
Prays
Presents
Searches
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It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.
Emily Mortimer / Actress
Approach
Rehearsal
Begin
Baffling
Hard Thing
Incredibly
Script
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The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
James P. Carse / Author
Bible
Imagery
Interpretation
Passages
Poetic
Select
Tales
Alternative
Baffling
Conflicting
Contradictions
Guide
Provides
Quotation
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I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.
Louis Theroux / Television Personality
Positive
Church
Consuming
Cruise
Headlines
Jumping
Media
Mindset
Space Past People
Alien
Baffling
Immersed
Sofa
Tabloid
Tom
Tom Cruise
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There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson / Film Director
Kids
Artist
Asking
Female
School
Wonder
Me People School
Me People Never
Baffling
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My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.
Morrissey /
Dublin
Proven
Records
Sides
Tree
Although
Baffling
Both My Parents
Dig
Family Parents Difficult
Large
Occasionally
Wiped
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It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Action Films
Effects
Fallacy
Humans
Imagery
Pouring
Special Effects
Summer
Baffling
Beautifully
Challenge
Grand
Notions
Rarely
Viewer
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Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.
Simon Mcburney / Actor
Absurd
Apocalypse
Bible
Confession
Dignity
Endgame
Guilt
Hopelessness
Interpretation
Meaningless
Babble
Baffling
Portrait
Reveals
Sees
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It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.
Dominic Holland /
Finance
Adverse
Astrology
Economist
Profession
Psychiatry
Safe
Standing
Affect
Baffling
Comfortably
Option
Patently
Whatsoever
Wonderfully
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