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The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.
Joseph Jacobs
Truth
Me
Truth Is
Problem
Important
Think
Tale
Reviewer
Friends
Differ
Where
Origin
Found
Originated
Saturday
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
Joseph Stiglitz
Work
Problem
Economics
Pay
Difficulty
Those
Insight
Nobel
Concerned
Returns
Lecture
Getting
Information
Noted
Who
Early
To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.
Joseph Stiglitz
Me
Problem
Closed
Doors
Corporations
Negotiations
Someone
More
Clear
Like
Most
Trade
Got
Than
Closed Doors
Closely
Behind
Wanted
Agenda
Who
Watched
Set
While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.
Josh Mandel
Do The Right Thing
Problem
Conservative
Will
First
Country
Conservatives
Others
Our
Right Thing
Some
Constitutional
More
Like
Democrats
Am
Proudly
Senator
Senators
Oftentimes
Just
Just As Much
The Right Thing
While
Republican
Republicans
Elect
Much
Stand
Who
Washington
Right
Thing
Need
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.
Josh Radnor
Myself
Day
Problem
Become
Responding
Kind
Find
Some
Throughout
Checking
Like
Reach
Within
iPhone
Ferocity
Texts
Act
Who
Conscious
Here
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
Josh Turner
Love
Soul
Heart
Problem
Listening
Fans
Singing
Love Songs
Too
Relating
Relationships
Say
Out
Something
No Problem
Songs
Put
Taking
Like
Know
Doing
Heart And Soul
Lives
Deeply
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
Joshua Cohen
Problem
Community
Back
Always
Ends
Fiction
Assimilation
I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Legal
People
Problem
Military
Think
State
Complete
Run
Immunity
Shadow
Part
Thugs
Look
Forced
Just
Impunity
Act
Actually
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Josiah Royce
Time
Problem
Thought
First
Other
Our
Only
Gives
Absolute
Self
Idealism
Until
Which
Formed
Us
Kant
Aspect
Notion
Preparatory
Deeper
Present
Second
Present Time
The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.
Joss Whedon
Time
Great
Me
Problem
Gone
All-Time
Superheroes
Beyond
Look
Concept
Comics
Necessity
Watchmen
I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.
Joss Whedon
People
Problem
Too
Other
Kids
Married
Would
Attached
Check
Like
Gotta
Get
Going
Being
Then
Much
Things
Need
Sleep
I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'
Judge Reinhold
Myself
Me
You
Problem
Seriously
Father
Once
Laugh
Bad
About
Had
He
Over
Looked
Self-Esteem
Said
Lot
Very
Walked
Anything
Whipped
Cream
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
Judith Light
Problem
Evil
Society
Our
More
Within
Than
Any
Form
Prejudice
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.
Judith Martin
You
Problem
Behavior
Somebody
Matters
Live
Hermit
Harmonious
Worry
About
Because
Got
Up
Mountain
Human
Want
Social
Then
Etiquette
Communities
Reasonably
I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.
Judy Smith
Life
Funny
Truth
Day
You
Truth Is
Every Day
Problem
Will
Important
Living
Every
Funny Way
Way
Extremely
Say
Rules
Those
Crisis
Telling
Telling The Truth
About
Someone
Client
Dealing
Any
Going
Going Away
Just
Whether
Away
Whatever the issue is or problem is, you have to own it, and you have to face into it. If not, it will just really get worse, and it will get compounded.
Judy Smith
You
Problem
Will
Face
Whatever
Own
Worse
Compounded
Issue
Get
Just
Really
Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.
Judy Smith
Time
Leadership
You
Reality
Problem
Negative
Face
Big
Think
Says
About
Something
Facts
Most
Because
Want
Them
Your
Company
The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.
Julia Holter
Relationship
People
Problem
Somebody
Control
Other
Classic
Person
Trying
Just
Want
Conquer
I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.
Julia Holter
Music
People
Problem
Try
Too Much
Think
Too
Enough
About
How
Famous
Much
Really
Receiving
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas
Religion
People
Problem
Power
Never
Gain
Use
Who
I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.
Julian Casablancas
People
Problem
Band
Think
Everything
More
Had
Within
Doing
Communal
Then
Used
Thing
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
Julian Fellowes
Work
Problem
Sometimes
Mother
Say
Would
Weekend
Hijacked
Gets
Right
Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from adjacent spaces doesn't intrude or interfere.
Julian Treasure
Noise
Problem
Big
Unwanted
Addressing
Intrude
Part
Sure
Making
Sound
Issue
Big Part
Offices
Modern
Spaces
Interfere
Number
Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
Julie Bishop
Problem
World
Developed
Developed World
Dementia
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
Julie Burchill
People
Problem
Moral
Seek
Concepts
Real
Real Problem
Just
Who
Portray
The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.
Julie Plec
You
Yourself
Problem
Give
Ratings
The Problem With
Reasons
Why
Million
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