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It`s difficult for me to imagine Justin as a real person. He`s so thoroughly a character created for serial television that his behavior, though dramatically justified on Queer as Folk, would register as childish, self-obsessed and absurd if it were displaced into the reality I`m familiar with. How could I be friends with someone who has nervous breakdowns at spilled marinara sauce, assaults high school enemies with small firearms, and has been systematically and repeatedly betrayed, lied to, condescended to, and humiliated by his boyfriend for four years? Were I placed into the TV wonderland of Queer as Folk, on the other hand, Justin and I would f**k once, realize we were twins separated at birth, and try to get our parents back together using elaborately quirky schemes. I`d most like to tell Justin to calm down. Maybe get him into a yoga class.

- Randy Harrison

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

- Debbie Stabenow

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

- Jesse Helms

When you travel, people don`t realize that you can only carry so many guys. He gives us an extra guy at a lot of different spots. He could go in and even play corner if we got in a real jam. He understands the schemes and everything we`re doing so that`s a real plus for us.

- Tom Bradley

I don`t think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.

- Udonis Haslem

There is a familiarity, in terms of schemes and philosophy,

- Brian Kelly

The best laid schemes o` Mice an` Men, Gang aft agley, An` lea`e us nought but grief an` pain, For promis`d joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!)

- Robert Burns

It`s easy to be prepared for a big game, ... They get excited for it. We didn`t know if our schemes and our strategies were going to hold up, but we believed they would.

- Jim Ryan
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new price controls, allocation schemes or other obstacles that will only serve to make a bad situation worse.

- Michael Doyle

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

- Christian Smith

Newer digital drives with flexible modulation schemes significantly reduce current ripple. Center-aligned modulation is one such technique, particularly for high-speed or low inductance motors.

- John Chandler

He (Brown) is a man with grandiose schemes, no doubt attracted by the glamour of sporting clubs, but he has been prepared to use dishonesty to keep these afloat by ignoring the rules of business.

- John Burgess

The commercial health and fitness industry is full of all types of quick fix schemes, making it frustrating to know what to believe in or trust.

- Lee Haney

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

- Alan Herbert

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

- Amanda Merrell

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

- Ammie Kim

(Book publishing has never had the money or the customer base to justify Hollywood`s wall-of-hype approach, but the old publicity paradigm of coaxing reviews and interviews in the book pages is now supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by all sorts of new marketing schemes. Random House Australia, the local distributor of The Da Vinci Code , is taking its publicity campaigns to shopping malls and street corners to lure readers into bookstores.) There are 200 new titles out there a month, ... We are always looking for new ideas.

- Andy Penman

To be successful, we have to be able to protect Mike (Lomas) and run the ball. That?s where the offensive line comes in. We have some good young kids up there, they just need some seasoning. That?s where the stability in the offense helps because most of those kids have been in the system for two years so they know and understand the blocking schemes.

- Anthony Mamone

There is no reason to pour any chemical into any kind of garden or agriculture. The planet did great without them for thousands of years until the chemical companies came along with marketing schemes to make money at our expense.

- Aubrey Ireland

The Europeans had a head start in establishing pilot schemes but they remain academically focused and have been slow to commercialize a resource that can economically compete with fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation.

- Autumn Nichols