Real Problems Quotes - Page 5

• For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Running, Real, War

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• People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Mother, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

  Judith Krug

  Real, Eye, Should Have

  "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

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• What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Couple, Real

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• The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.

  Amy Walter

  Real, Kids, Bully

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Sports, Real, School

  "Office affairs" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

  John Yarmuth

  Real, Problem, Hypothetical

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• Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

  Jim Cooper

  Real, Clueless, Home

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• 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

  Children, Pain, Real

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The real problem devolves around class lines once again: it's the street hormones that folks without insurance, or folks who are too young for prescriptions without parental okay, use. Sometimes those hormones can be pretty rough.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Class, Use

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• 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

  Real, Pay, Corporations

  "Michael Moore: The Real IRS Scandal Is That ‘They Let General Electric Not Pay Any Taxes’", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2013.

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• I played a security guard, and I think it was in the State Department. This was my first acting role, really, and I remember rehearsing it on the couch with my girlfriend at the time. I had a real problem with saying the word "incendiary." Most of my rehearsal was spent on pronouncing the word "incendiary."

  Kevin Nealon

  Girlfriend, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

  David Hockney

  Real, Perspective, Definitions

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

  Maynard Jackson

  Real, Sleep, Guy

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• When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem. We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Real, Struggle

  "Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2015.

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• 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

  Running, Real, Monkeys

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• 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

  Motivational, Positive, Strength

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

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• 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

  Real, Hero, Sidekicks

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.16, Penguin

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• Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Father, Real, Reflection

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• 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

  Fake People, Real, Opera

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

  Beverly Cleary

  Mother, Father, Real

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• The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Real, People

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• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Real, Hands Up, Numbers

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

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