Problem Quotes
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When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.
Erma Bombeck
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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
Bernard Crick
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Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.
Garrison Wynn
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The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.
Bill Clinton
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The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
Mimi Rogers
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If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests are specialized, they're secondary; they're somewhere over to the side of the serious work that's being done. Throughout history, there have been ladies' magazines, ladies' journals, and for years there have been women writers who would refuse to participate in women-only sort projects because of that stigma.
Erin Belieu
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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
Norton Juster
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
Carrie Fisher
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I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.
Dolly Parton
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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.
Russell Banks
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The problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!
Pearl Cleage
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
Stephen Covey
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I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.
Bill Clinton
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I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
Sandra Bernhard
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I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.
Howard Stern
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I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.
Ned Vizzini
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Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.
Francis Chan
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Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other
Michael Morpurgo
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The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
Milton Berle
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Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
Thomas Sowell
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We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.
Tony Blair
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The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard Feynman
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That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
Scott Westerfeld
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That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.
Edward Hallowell