Real Problem Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Kenny G

#3. The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#4. There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

Will Rogers

#5. 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

#6. And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

Allyson Schwartz

#7. 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

#8. I know that people who have been closely involved with my work for many years are terrified of having to answer to someone else, someone who is not me, and that it won't be me to help them in their problems. This is my real problem.

Giorgio Armani

#9. So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Jim Cooper

#11. The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

Jack Kemp

#12. Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

Chelsea Handler

#13. I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

#14. The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

Alan Price

#15. You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.

Stuart J. Russell

#16. 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

#17. I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

M. Stanton Evans

#18. 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

#19. People can't stay out of their cars. I do think we have a real problem staying out of our automobiles. We have a real dependency on them, and it may be for more than just transportation.

Steve Forbert

#20. My psychiatrist diagnosed me a Hypochondriac. I said, "Okay, can you prescribe me a placebo?"

"Not for Type-2 Hypochondriacs," he said. Your types would just fake faking. Then we'd have a real problem.

Brian Spellman

#21. Am I trying to create a real problem to drive away my imaginary ones?

Paulo Coelho

#22. The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

E. O. Wilson

#23. But you know what their real problem with me was? I never wanted to be one of them. That's what bothers bullies the most.

Michelle Hodkin

#24. 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

#25. I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

Sam Altman

#26. I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

Rand Paul

#27. The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

S. Jay Olshansky

#28. Solving a real problem was much more meaningful than saving fictional souls from a fictional hell.

Dan Barker

#29. The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate, you will have more than enough energy. You will learn to live strategically.

Frederick Lenz

#30. I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Joyce Meyer

#31. 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

#32. The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

Eli Roth

#33. Yeah, totally. I punch myself in the arms a lot. It's a real problem.

Courtney Summers

#34. the real problem for so many of these kids is what happens (or doesn't happen) at home.

J.D. Vance

#35. The real problem is Barack Obama has had six years to advocate a position to fix this and he's done nothing. The congress has funded these programs of building more fencing and doing all this and he hasn't done it.

Jeb Bush

#36. 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

#37. That may not be a simple conversation. But when you are dealing with root causes, at least you know you are fighting the real problem and not just boxing with shadows.

Steven D. Levitt

#38. The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C.S. Lewis

#39. The real problem with the world, too many people grow up.

Walt Disney Company

#40. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't. It took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Bill Gates

#41. The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

Angela Merkel

#42. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

Ann Voskamp

#43. After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

Bill Russell

#44. The things he had understood to be sin (murder, adultery, etc.) he now understood to be mere symptoms of the real problem: unbelief.

Michael Reeves

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

Daniel Snyder

#48. TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

Bill McKibben

#49. The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#50. 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

#51. Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

Jerry Bridges

#52. The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

Gay Talese

#53. Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

Jim Knight

#54. The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Bill Bryson

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

Arthur Lacey

#59. To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

William Glasser

#60. The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

Jerry Garcia

#61. I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
You ask me what to do about them.
It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.
Face that one first.

Idries Shah

#62. If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

Edward Norton

#63. The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.

James Lee Burke

#64. Whatever the situation and however disheartening it may be, it is a great hour when a man ceases adopting difficulties as an excuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#65. If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

Aviva Chomsky

#66. 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

#67. The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Neil Gaiman

#68. The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Gay Talese

#69. I think the real problem is that you're afraid. Afraid of real love, and what it looks like, because you don't know what it is. The thing is, love is a risk, no matter what. It's just a risk you don't need to be afraid of taking.

Melody Jackson

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#73. 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

#74. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#75. If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Joseph Campbell

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. But if rejection was his only stumbling block, then pride was his real problem

Mesu Andrews

#80. Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

Francis Ford Coppola

#81. I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

Ariel Pink

#82. 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

#83. Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

Radhanath Swami

#84. People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.

Monica Lewinsky

#85. Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.

Stephen Merchant

#86. Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Phil Plait

#87. The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

George Papandreou

#88. Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Alan Kay

#89. I have a real problem with bloat
I write like fat ladies diet.

Stephen King

#90. 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

#91. The real problem is what can man and machine do together and not in competition.

Richard Hamming

#92. The real issue has nothing to do with whether women wear makeup or don't, gain weight or lose it, have surgery or shun it, dress up or down, make our clothing and faces and bodies into works of art or ignore adornment altogether. The real problem is our lack of choice.

Naomi Wolf

#93. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#94. 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

#95. I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

Shirley Maclaine

#96. 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

#97. I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Andrew Greeley

#98. 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

#99. The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or 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

#100. My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz