All Quotes

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.
‐‐ Giambattista Valli

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson

The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
‐‐ Jeh Johnson

The problem is that the automobile companies are not independent entities capable of pursuing their own interests. Rather, they are owned and controlled by organizations that are much more heavily invested in oil.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.
‐‐ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
‐‐ Brian Cox

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
‐‐ Robert Sternberg

The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
‐‐ Diego Maradona

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
‐‐ Marcel Carne

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
‐‐ Nate Silver

The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

The problem is that with blogging, the model is publish first, maybe fact-check later. In newspapers, the model is you fact check first and then publish. But those models are merging.
‐‐ Craig Newmark

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
‐‐ Martin Van Creveld

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
‐‐ Boris Vian

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
‐‐ Charles Evers

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.
‐‐ Steven Johnson

The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.
‐‐ Elizabeth Coleman

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.
‐‐ Shane Warne

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
‐‐ James Lovelock

The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.
‐‐ Sebastiao Salgado

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
‐‐ Trey Parker

The problem is we need much more moral content.
‐‐ Cornel West

The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.
‐‐ Lykke Li

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
‐‐ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.
‐‐ Paul Ince

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
‐‐ John Galliano

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her.
‐‐ Firooz Zahedi