The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.
India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up all kinds of complicated barriers for us. I remember once having to go meet with the foreign ministry official and say 'You know look I have a real problem here. Is this person really important to you?' And I just thought 'My God.' You know my wife and I have been together since college. You know it's 20 years.
I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.
Football is so difficult to predict.
It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.
It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.