Problem Quotes

• The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?

  

  Warren Leight
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• I think the Iraqis themselves will have to make a determination as to what type of government they ultimately come up with and what kind of nation they ultimately come up with. But they can continually use America's troops presence. The problem is not going to change until they are confronted with the reality that they have to make decisions and they have to make them themselves. They have to decide whether they want a country, whether they're willing to put their lives on the line and sacrifice for a national interest as opposed to a regional or sectarian interest.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Reality

• My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Church
  • Judgment
  • Christianity

• Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

  

  William Zinsser
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Reader

• The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Opportunity
  • Fall
  • Winning

• To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Hair
  • Doors
  • Response

• For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Different
  • Leadership
  • Situation

• Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • People
  • Today
  • Dream

• It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Wanted

• Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Culture
  • Proud
  • Situation

• Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Problem
  • Black Singers

• The problem is that so far in the Arab world, very few leaders are willing to tell their own people that they have to understand that the Holocaust did take place.

  

  Efraim Zuroff
  • Leaders
  • Holocaust
  • Arab World

• I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.

  

  Winona LaDuke
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• It has often been suggested that Chinese-style, market-oriented reforms are the solution to the North Korean problem.

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Reform

• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Character
  • Terrible
  • Solutions

• You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

  

  Mike Murdock
  • Problem
  • Things
  • Remembered

• People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

  

  Andrew Zimbalist
  • Problem
  • Baseball
  • Discussions

• Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!

  

  Cody Walker
  • Internet
  • Hot
  • Showers

• When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Challenges

• Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

  

  Barbara Stocking
  • Help
  • Death
  • Climate Change

• I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Party
  • Demanding
  • Socialise

• What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Economy
  • Consequences
  • Claims

• The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Problem
  • Doctrine
  • Political Process

• I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Involved
  • Convince
  • Casting

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