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"I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?"
"As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen."
"Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German."
"Progress is the mother of problems."
"As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority."
"I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic."
"The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing."
"One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations."
"The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved."
"There are people on the left who say, Look, we can't let these atrocities go on, so let's enter the war and get rid of Bashar Assad. The problem with that is you get into a nuclear war with Russia. And Syria gets wiped out along with everything else. So, it's fine to say, OK, let's stop the crimes, but how exactly?"
"Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive."
"Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all."
"I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin!"
"A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem."
"Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world."
"Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one."
"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so."
"Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low."
"The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people."
"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
