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  • Television has a real problem. They have no page two. -- Art Buchwald
  • The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner
  • I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. -- Gillian Anderson
  • The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. -- Gay Talese
  • The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. -- Jack Kemp
  • The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. -- Anita Hill
  • I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend. -- Joyce Meyer
  • I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. -- Andrew Greeley
  • I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem. -- Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work. -- James Levine
  • The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. -- Paul Bloom
  • Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. -- Paul Farmer
  • The real problem with Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to do with the restrictions on insurance companies and reimbursement rates to doctors. -- Ben Shapiro
  • The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous. -- Herman Cain
  • It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. -- Bob Barr
  • That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it. -- Giles Andreae
  • Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. -- Bjorn Lomborg
  • You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made? -- Walter Murch
  • When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't. -- Eddie Vedder
  • We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. -- Jenny McCarthy
  • In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. -- Alex Ferguson
  • I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh. -- Alain de Botton
  • Solve a real problem and the world is yours. -- Aaron Patzer
  • Problem with these other niggas they aint never real -- Drake
  • Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality. -- David Remnick
  • The only real problem in life is what to do next. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
  • Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing. -- Radhanath Swami
  • The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up. -- Suzanne Collins
  • The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER. -- Brian Tracy
  • One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it. -- Carl Ludwig Siegel
  • Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world -- Eric S. Raymond
  • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. -- Arthur Lacey
  • The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem. -- Keith Devlin
  • I have a real problem with bloat -- I write like fat ladies diet. -- Stephen King
  • The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture. -- David Hockney
  • [...] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem. -- David Gemmell
  • A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame. -- David Cottrell
  • The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem. -- George Polya
  • If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem. -- Michael Berryman
  • The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition. -- Richard Hamming
  • The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved. -- Gay Talese
  • The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel. -- Charles de Lint
  • Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved. -- Fela Durotoye
  • People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women. -- Monica Lewinsky
  • The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist. -- Matt Tong
  • Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial. -- Joseph Campbell
  • We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep. -- Maynard Jackson
  • To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act. -- Billy Wilder
  • The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. -- George Papandreou
  • If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem. -- Edward Norton
  • So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. -- Julie Burchill
  • Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. -- Gil Kane
  • The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective -- Tony Robbins
  • As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. -- Daniel Snyder
  • A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem... so what's the problem again? -- Runa Magnus
  • We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy. -- Carl Icahn
  • As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital. -- Daniel Snyder
  • Real faith comes when you facing a problem you can't help, you can't change, and you can't work it out -- Cynthia A. Patterson
  • Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
  • I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. -- Lawrence Lessig
  • How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with ] both parties, it's beyond belief. -- Lewis Black
  • The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you. -- Aaron Sorkin
  • The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus. -- Timothy Keller
  • Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve. -- John F. Kerry
  • But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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  • The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? -- Charles Eames
  • My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's. -- Seth Godin
  • All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. -- Stephen Covey
  • Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us. -- Elizabeth Banks
  • We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. -- Hanna Rosin
  • The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor. -- Henry Hazlitt
  • If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph. -- Garry Winogrand
  • Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. -- Jerry Bridges
  • I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me. -- Nick Rhodes
  • It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life. -- Soman Chainani
  • I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. -- Henri Nouwen
  • Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world. -- Bjorn Lomborg
  • The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete. -- Joe Budden
  • Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
  • The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation. -- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out. -- Sam Altman
  • If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve. -- Roxane Gay
  • True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful. -- Martha Beck
  • It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. -- Ron Paul
  • The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace. -- Cynthia Heimel
  • The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal -- Michael Moore
  • The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain. -- Lev Grossman
  • The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers? -- Anthony Daniels
  • If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem. -- Julius Genachowski
  • When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. -- Orson Welles
  • The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind. -- Seth Godin
  • Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. -- Nat Friedman
  • The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. -- Alex Cox
  • The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience. -- Amy Bloom
  • The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes forever the scene of our crime. -- Richard Rohr
  • The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. -- Richard Helms
  • The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you. -- Mat Johnson
  • Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. -- Alice Hamilton
  • We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons have gotten out of the box. -- George Saunders
  • The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
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