"The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists."
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"I have kids who buy tickets for my show... How could I take their money and ignore their problems?"
"I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems."
"Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work."
"I felt I had to solve everyone's problems."
"I have some problems with conventional organized religion."
"For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain."
"Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used."
"If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now."
"Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives."
"Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem."
"My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one."
"Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact."
"If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS."
"The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly."
"I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem."
"[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later."
"It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems."
"There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca]."
"I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours."