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Football coaches don't have real problems. -- Lou Holtz
In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural. -- Hugh Masekela
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems. -- John Yarmuth
I like real problems, the human condition - twisted, darker stuff. -- Drea De Matteo
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. -- Andres Serrano
I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems. -- Josh Radnor
We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems. -- Emilio Estevez
Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. -- Jim Cooper
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. -- Martha Beck
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
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems. -- Martha Beck
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are. -- Frank Rich
My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion. -- Taylor Wilson
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. -- Tony Campolo
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas. -- Wil S. Hylton
Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system. -- Richard Lamm
Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will. -- Ben Huh
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. -- David R. Brower
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. -- Clarence Thomas
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world. -- Rob Bell
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country. -- William Kunstler
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. -- Edward James Olmos
Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems. -- Gerard Way
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. -- John Maynard Keynes
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems. -- Madonna Ciccone
It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag. -- Joe Perry
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. -- Jack Welch
Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems. -- Valentina
Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems. -- Kenneth Rogoff
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions. -- William Arthur Ward
The two real problems in life are boredom and death. -- Saul Bellow
You dread that there will be real problems during filming. -- Ralph Fiennes
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable. -- Anne McCaffrey
Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems. -- Gary Shteyngart
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems. -- Chris Argyris
I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems. -- David J. Anderson
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children. -- Jon Kyl
The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. -- Gay Talese
Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved. -- Dalai Lama
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. -- Milton Friedman
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. -- Thomas Sowell
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems -- Epictetus
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms. -- Charles Handy
The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. -- Brian Tracy
One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations. -- Noam Chomsky
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems. -- Eckhart Tolle
I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately. -- Seth Priebatsch
Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. -- Gil Kane
Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back. -- Bryant McGill
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. -- John Dewey
Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over. -- Marie Osmond
If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. -- Jack Welch
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. -- Lawrence Lessig
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. -- Edsger Dijkstra
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. -- Arash Ferdowsi
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car. -- Stephen Hawking
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems. -- Neil Gershenfeld
Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. -- Felix Adler
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities. -- Jeb Bush
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems. -- Jim Cooper
I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. -- Hugh L. Dryden
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. -- Albert Einstein
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected. -- Hugh L. Dryden
There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems. -- Amy Hill Hearth
Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world. -- Bernie Sanders
When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events. -- Ernst F. Schumacher
The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events. -- Ernst F. Schumacher
With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded. -- Kerry Stokes
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. -- Heather James
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life. -- Umberto Eco
In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered. -- Donald A. Norman
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure. -- Reg Revans
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers. -- John Walters
Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is. -- Anne Graham Lotz
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems. -- C. S. Lewis
[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings. -- Jason Fried
While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans. -- Kathleen Sebelius
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. -- Maxwell Maltz
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. -- David Korten
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. -- Tim Heidecker
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear! -- Mila Kunis
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. -- Aldrich Ames
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way. -- W. G. Sebald
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I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world. -- Sam Dunn
There's no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them -- Shashi Tharoor

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