"They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission."
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"I do have trouble with titles."
"The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with."
"Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins."
"Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do."
"God never promised us a trouble-free life."
"I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up."
"Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food."
"One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped."
"I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today."
"I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised."
"At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal."
"I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself."
"people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves."
"Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble."
"Troubles take wing for the man who can sing."
"I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves."
"There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it."
"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
"When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security."