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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
Walter Jon Williams
Problem
Down
Has-Been
Some
Stepped
Ideas
Because
Territory
Were
Been
Movies
Shot
Reserved
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann
Suffering
Problem
World
Three
Picture
Difficult
Cases
Takes
Most
Account
Human
Human Beings
Place
Which
Beings
Poses
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
Walter Kirn
Life
Hope
People
Problem
Events
Progress
Somewhere
Think
Our
Once
More
Could
Troubled
Writers
Contact
Longer
New
Make
Read
Becoming
Were
Than
Interact
Sensational
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Stories
Story
Notion
Stranger
Resembles
Ever
Profound
Intersect
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang
Problem
Pride
Our
Solution
Sinful
Itself
May
Human
Appeal
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai
Life
Death
Problem
Matter
Country
Life And Death
Facing
Forests
Man-Made
Extinction
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
Warren Christopher
Great
Rights
People
Problem
Immigration
Human Rights
Other
Other Countries
States
Only
Instability
Take
Countries
Caused
Human
Interest
Region
Boats
Then
Creating
Flood
United
United States
Violations
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
Warren Farrell
Video Games
Problem
Win
Girl
Chemistry
Healthy
Starving
Focused
Week
Hours
Parts
Boy
Builds
Stimulates
Motivation
Brain
Five
While
Video
Fantasy
Average
Games
I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
Warren Spector
Problem
Plenty
No Problem
Bought
Got
Used
Games
Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.
Wayne Huizenga
People
Problem
Country
Think
City
About
Guy
Part
New
Wall
Afford
York
New York
New York City
Little
Who
Things
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
Wayne Kramer
Music
Problem
Cause
Sex
Other
Top
Booze
About
Had
Idea
Stuff
Most
Learn
Want
Wanted
Awful
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
Wendell H. Ford
Problem
Nation
Garbage
Our
Address
Paper
Generating
Particularly
Mounting
Less
Waste
Need
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
Wendy Kopp
Education
Problem
Diversity
Higher Education
Country
Live
Our
Promise
Must
Tackle
Higher
Up
Going
Lack
In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
Werner Heisenberg
War
Problem
Collective
Drive
Energy
Scale
Would
Constitute
Atomic
Atomic Energy
Attempt
Part
Germany
Effort
America
American
Decided
War Effort
Producing
Production
Engines
Large
Large Part
Bombs
Applied
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
Wesley Snipes
Man
Problem
Black
Country
Believe
Culprit
Conditioned
If you're an evil company who's casting minorities to be in your commercial to get the politically correct card, it's like putting a band-aid over a bigger problem. But I think it's an incredible start.
Weyes Blood
You
Problem
Evil
Think
Incredible
Correct
Minorities
Casting
Putting
Over
Like
Commercial
Get
Politically
Politically Correct
Bigger
Your
Company
Card
Start
I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.
Whitney Cummings
Myself
Eyes
Problem
Face
See
Bags
Look
Terrible
Get
Want
Ever
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
Whitney M. Young
People
Problem
Related
Distance
Liberalism
Seems
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
Will Ferrell
Problem
Rat
Others
Some
Some Things
No Problem
Onto
Selective
Dearly
Getting
Hold
Pack
Rid
Things
ISIS was able to grow because the Obama administration stuck its head in the sand rather than address the emerging problem.
Will Hurd
Problem
Address
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Able
Emerging
Rather
Stuck
Head
Because
Than
Sand
Grow
My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?
Will Poulter
God
You
Problem
Rapper
Dance
Wish
Hell
Living
Enough
Everything
Rap
Able
Could
Talented
Like
Know
Sure
Going
Oh
Oh God
Want
Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.
Will Shields
You
People
Problem
Speak
Looking
Live
Group
Society
Everything
Neighbor
Never
Nobody
Make
Sure
Doing
Years
Lot
Close
Five
Just
Different
Just Looking
Place
Moving
Transit
Next
Whole
Different Things
Things
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
William A. Dembski
Government
Problem
Sphere
Area
Arises
Operation
Continually
Encompassing
Lacks
Legitimacy
Where
Legitimate
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.
William A. Dembski
Good
Nature
Atheist
Reality
Good And Evil
Problem
Evil
Values
Faces
Thus
Contingent
Subjective
Offer
Which
View
Grounding
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
William Hull
Problem
Active
Valid
Static
Impersonal
Ideas
However
Person
Whereas
Dynamic
The problem is how do molecules react. Because if you want to transform a molecule into something useful or something you're interested in, it helps a lot to understand the structure. That means you can explore much more complicated systems, much more complicated reactions.
William Lipscomb
You
Problem
Complicated
Systems
Something
Structure
More
React
Reactions
Because
Understand
How
Lot
Want
Transform
Interested
Much
Means
Explore
Useful
Molecule
Molecules
Helps
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
William Petersen
Problem
Mother
Father
Animals
Back
Silent
Some
Potentially
Supervisor
Had
He
Knew
Know
Household
Himself
Learned
Bugs
Comfortable
Deaf
Around
Yard
His
Being
Where
Place
Grissom
Who
Level
Raised
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