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I can't relax. I find vacations problematic. -- John Oliver
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. -- Anna Freud
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. -- Terry Gross
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? -- Lyle Lovett
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic. -- Chinua Achebe
The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. -- Larry David
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. -- Romola Garai
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. -- Adrienne Rich
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. -- Marilyn Manson
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans. -- Billy Joel
Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. -- Dennis Quaid
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. -- Nicholson Baker
The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws. -- Noam Chomsky
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day. -- Ali Smith
We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic. -- Emma Thompson
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in. -- Junot Diaz
In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere. -- Evgeny Morozov
Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. -- Adam Schiff
What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would. -- Noel Gallagher
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least. -- Josh Radnor
I'm not afraid of hard work. I like it! It's the other bit - the not working - I find more problematic. If I'm not busy, I just get antsy. I've been this way since I was a child. Sitting still is like torture for me. -- Pixie Lott
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level. -- Nick Cave
Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems. -- Bill Parcells
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. -- Eric Bogosian
Girls will go out and spend $200 or $300 dollars on a pair of shoes, but you should also be taking care of your skin. That's the first thing people see. I think it's an investment. It's a lot cheaper to use really great products now, rather than trying to fix problematic skin later on in life. That's always been my motto. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic. -- Terry Bozzio
Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. -- Bobby Short
The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera -- Lenny Henry
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. -- Ian Hacking
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. -- Richard Holloway
No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. -- Joel Sternfeld
Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic. -- Richard North Patterson
My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel. -- Gillian Jacobs
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. -- Theodor Adorno
If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic. -- Paul W. S. Anderson
In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development. -- Condoleezza Rice
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. -- Questlove
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. -- Alain de Botton
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. -- Toni Morrison
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. -- Terry Pratchett
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. -- Anita Sarkeesian
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Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift. -- Shelby Harris
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic. -- Michael Craig-Martin
I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic. -- Alison Assiter
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all. -- Anna Quindlen
I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that. -- Wesley Morris
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown. -- William Kennedy
We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic. -- Carl E. Olson
I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things. -- Aaron Tveit
The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream. -- Iqbal Sacranie
No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved. -- Rebecca Hamilton
It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments. -- Mike Mills
I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic. -- Eliot Spitzer
By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book' ... it'd be problematic. -- Gal Gadot
Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more. -- Frederick Lenz
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic. -- Gary Ackerman
History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic. -- Matt Smith
Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced. -- Eliot Engel
Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic. -- Lars Feld
It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop. -- Alice Oswald
Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated! -- Kelley Armstrong
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. -- George Eliot
If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic. -- Jerry Stahl
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
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy. -- Martin Schulz
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes. -- Matana Roberts
When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic. -- Dalai Lama
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. -- Ann Macbeth
Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and more problematic. -- Mohammad Marandi
One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
If you are having sex with someone who is not on the same frequency that you are on, it can be very problematic. The greatest karmic transfer occurs in having sex with someone. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is. -- Richard Fleeshman
I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird. -- Craig Zobel
Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them. -- Frederick Lenz
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves. -- Terry Pratchett
Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference. -- Paris Barclay
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time. -- David Brooks
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority. -- Elif Safak

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