#real issue

He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#anxious #back #being #came #get

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#desire #element #even #grows #independent

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#art #audience #because #care #claim

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#activities #believing #better #centered #fairness

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#condemn #divorce #gay #gay marriage #indifferent

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#awful #being #believe #church #churches

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#effort #i #i wish #illegal #immigration

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election. ↗

— Vicky Hartzler

#election #i #i think #issue #main

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#becoming #define #discuss #herself #issue

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american people #campaign #distract #divide