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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. Forster / Novelist
Adventure
Muddle
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I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
David Lean / Film Director
Dislike
Muddle
Mystery
Mysteries
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Messy
Middle
Middle Of The Road
Muddle
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Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
Anthony Sampson / Writer
Committees
Extras
Muddle
Personality
Unknown
Committee
Extra
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey / Author
Distracted
Motion Pictures
Muddle
Writing
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The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through.
Kersti Kaljulaid /
Credit
Muddle
Resilient
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. Forster / Novelist
Romantic
Muddle
Room With A View
True Love Is Forever
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We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.
Mariella Frostrup / Journalist
Endure
Muddle
Naturally
Programmed
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein / Poet
Muddle
Speak
Talking
Itself
Explain
Never Explain
Speaks
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch / Author
Intellectual
Literature
Muddle
Sociologists
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I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Jane Goodall / Primatologist
Communicate
Harder
Language
Muddle
Thinking
Words
Gets
Spoken
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I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.
Louis Macneice / Poet
Muddle
Everyone Else
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Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it might be - but you have to guess which bits.
Ronnie Corbett / Actor
Bits
Muddle
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I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.
Peter Jackson / Film Director
Muddle
Analyse
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I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.
Ronnie Wood / Musician
Muddle
Nine
Directing
Tour
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MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay a step ahead of the media.
Dominic Cummings /
Muddle
Tinkering
Scale
Official
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If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.
James Stephens / Novelist
Economy
Muddle
Political Economy
Understood
Men Women Political
Consequent
Domestic
Entire
Women Men Political
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If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Cold
Different
Muddle
Musical
Play
Altogether
Life Great Fear
Carrying
Catch
Life Fear Great
Different Thing
Singer
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I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
William Morris / Artist
Muddle
Subjects
Vocation
Degree
Enter
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If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Peter Mackay / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Canada
Fighting
Iraq
Muddle
Nations
Neighbour
United Nations
Backing
Beside
Leads
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Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
Vint Cerf /
Cases
Chosen
Muddle
Path
Right Path
Time Myself Opportunity
Conclude
Finally
In Fact
Seemed
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Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.
Becky Albertalli /
Love Is
Making Mistakes
Muddle
Virtue
Life Love Love Is
Life Love Together
Mistakes
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Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.
Erik Prince /
Thank You
Demand
Muddle
Sacrifice
Support Our Troops
Troops
Generals
Wasted
Service
Thank
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
Tom Baker / Actor
Failure
Disappointment
Doctor Who
Doctors
Ecstatic
Kind
Muddle
Outrageous
Success Time Failure
Doctor
Compared
Except
Rest
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Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at least listen to corporate vets who have made the transition.
Daniel Lyons / Writer
Corporate
Muddle
Toss
Aside
Chances
Flame
Startups
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Muddle
Neurons
German
Displaced
Spanish
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Confronting
Contemporary
Harm
Historic
Insufficient
Long Term
Muddle
Agencies
Aid
Arrive
Basis
Blindly
Crises
Somewhat
Extrapolate
Pros
Reluctantly
Weigh
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It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
Antony Beevor / Historian
Backwards
Compulsion
Crisis
Muddle
No Idea
Notion
Time Future Past
Automatically
Future Time Past
Future Time Look
In The Past
Resemble
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I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinating, you are none of those things. You are a hormonal muddle in your school uniform sitting in double science looking at a boy who you know will never notice you. That was definitely me; I was so shy at school.
Emily Berrington /
Fascinating
Muddle
Life Cool Time
Life Cool Science
Double
Notice
Uniform
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