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When Tom and I were young we had many liberties. We could stay up and go out later than kids in our age. But I never misused it. I never came back home drunk and threw up at my mother`s feet. - 2005, from an interview for the first biography book about `Tokio Hotel`

- Bill Kaulitz

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don`t need any fingers.

- Larry Flynt

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it`s because you`ve started to think of failure.

- Tommy Lasorda

The directive really makes it a lot easier for governments and companies in Europe to learn about who is doing what on the Internet. The problem with the requirement to store online data is that it can easily be misused.

- Ian Brown

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

- Richard Solomon

It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community`s own work was politicized.

- Paul Pillar

It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between (Bush) policy-makers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community`s own work was politicized.

- Paul Pillar

It wouldn`t be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives` recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

- Michael Kinsley

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

- Alan Lloyd

But also, the guest workers program, it`s quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they`d run off to do every other kind of job that isn`t covered by a guest workers program.

- Alan Norquist

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

- Alexander Eliot

If you get it out into the urban field it`s going to be used or misused but it`ll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

- Ana Gabriela Ocejo

The auditor`s report... did not suggest that any improper actions have taken place or that any funds were misused or lost.

- Anne McInerney