“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.” IfsFeelsFirstsBelieveProblemI BelieveStuffDadDecidedMy DadSober Author:Jack Osbourne
“Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.” ThinkingTryingDifferentProblemStuffProcessMy OwnGriefAddictionDifferent Things Author:Richie Sambora
“There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.” FeelsProblemStuffPaintingPlentyTeaDissidents Author:China Mieville
“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.” WorldLooksDoeReasonEnoughProblemStuffSeriesOneselfStudiosDeeperDeeper Meaning Author:Anish Kapoor
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.” WorldYearsProblemStuffTechnologyChanging The World Author:Steve Jobs
“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.” ProblemStuffDrugConcerned Author:Jerry Garcia
“I think it's good to surround yourself with people you care about and that care about you, and you all trust each other, and then you don't have to worry about problems and shitty stuff happening.” PeopleThinkingProblemCareStuffWorryHappeningsMmaSurroundSurround YourselfSurround Yourself With People Author:Nate Diaz
“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.” MenDoeSaidI CanDoneProblemRememberYoungUsedNamesStuffCollegeKeysConversationComputerCompetitionFingersYoung ManExtensionsMechanicElectronicsPasswords Author:William Shatner
“We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.” KnowsMayLongHardProblemTogetherStuffAnswersTheoryCivilizationPhysicsAliensMathematicalRealmsGravityQuantumQuantum PhysicsGravitation Author:Paul Davies
“My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.” ThinkingKnowsTryingCharacterProblemStuffWittyErudite Author:Anne Lamott
“Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.” PeopleWantBelieveProblemStuffIntellectualPercentPropertyStealingAlternativesApplesOptimistIntellectual PropertyStealing ThingsApple Inc Author:Steve Jobs
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.” WarEnoughProblemArtistStuffGoneForeverGloryPaintTechniqueImpressionVisualsImpressionism Author:A. Y. Jackson
“All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.” MenProblemLastsTurnsStuffOneselfLovelyAnalysisIslandsLoadCrapDonne Author:Kenneth Williams
“I could never figure out or probably did not take the trouble to figure out what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.” PeopleProblemStuffInterestNumbersAliveTroubleFiguresPhilosophicalStormNobleStatementsVested InterestsGreat Philosophical Author:Eric Hoffer
“I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.” WantKindProblemStuffSleepForeverWeekCryBuiltIllnessAll KindsKeep GoingOverwhelmingGoing To Sleep Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantFeelsTryingKindRealProblemAbleWantedGamesStuffCommonFantasyFirePlayerMinesCommon SenseAliensReal WorldExploringLocationThrillArrestedSpaceshipsConfrontingGoofyReal Power Author:Warren Spector
“The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.” EnoughProblemKidsFunStuffYouthBasketballProgramMy FamilyStriveThese DaysGermanyNbaFun Stuff Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer.” WayWritingTryingImportantProblemAbleStuffCasesNovelWifeTeachingTvsHollywoodMy WifeIncomeNovelistsEmployersSupplementsMaking A Living Author:Michael Chabon
“Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.” PeopleIfsProblemStuffChanceNumbersFiguresGang Author:Ross Kemp
“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.” MayProblemStuffWealthEffortEffectsSecurityFunctionGenerosityGenerousAppetiteAntidote Author:Andy Stanley
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.” PeopleProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesCuttingGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeCategoriesFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.” IfsWayChildrenHas BeensProblemUsedFoundStuffDifferencesWorrySkinsBotherAnxiousLiberatingBad DayHad A Bad Day Author:Laura Linney
“People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.” PeopleBelieveKindMeanProblemCoursesI BelieveStuffChristTalkingPrinciplesFundamentalsMetaphorI Believe InPhysicsReactionsBelieve In GodSophisticatedReincarnationPhysicistTrinityCrucifixionI Believe In God Author:Richard Dawkins
“Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.” PeopleIfsProblemStuffGoalToo MuchCrazyInsaneComedianInsanity Author:Jim Carrey
“Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.” IfsKindHelpingProblemStuffColdInvolvedProducersChairsExecutivesProblem SolvingDeck Author:Russell Brand
“Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."” IfsWayWantGivingProblemStuffGive MeSeriesFilmmakerDestinationBinaryIf Then Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.” NeedsProblemStuffStay With MeBad Stuff Author:Richard Armitage
“In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a hierarchy, and there doesn't necessarily have to be a hierarchy. When you're in a palace like Blenheim, you're supposed to be in awe - why not be in awe of something different than the stuff they're showing you? It's about finding your own existential place.” DifferentProblemRealityStuffFindingsSupposed To BeAweWorking ItWhy NotExistentialHierarchyParallelsPalacesSimultaneousAlternate Realities Author:Lawrence Weiner
“As for basic jokes about sex and even my religious stuff, I don't find any problems with that, even if I'm gigging in the Bible Belt, because religious people don't come and see me.” PeopleIfsProblemSexStuffReligiousJokesBelts Author:Jim Jefferies
“I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.” PeopleProblemStuffKillersDepressed People Author:Amy Sedaris