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To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that`s when it gets difficult.

- Gillian Anderson

I think this generation has a very `me, me` attitude, and it`s to our detriment.

- Kevin Powell

What makes him the player that he is, ... is also a detriment too.

- Claire King

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

- Laurent Fabius

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It`s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

- E.L. Doctorow

My party is going to have to decide whether we are going to continue to make excuses for Tom to the detriment of Republicans seeking election.

- Alan Kearney

It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.

- Alexandros Roussos

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation`s fiscal house in order.

- Alice Erickson

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

- Allison Krauss

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

- Andreas Rummelt

The developer plans to clear a lot of the vegetation in our backyards which alone is a detriment to our lifestyles. But then there are the size of the homes being planned for this neighborhood. At 1,300-square-feet, they are less than half the size of the average home in the Benjamin Farms development. Allowing something of that size to go in would be equivalent to stealing $50,000 from our property values.

- Ann Meredith

What makes him the player that he is, ... is also a detriment too.

- Ashish Fernandes

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine

- Rob Stampfli