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We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

We don't want to suddenly mess around with people's normal viewing habits and force them to do interactive things. Above all, we want to expand the viewer's experience, either through a very simple directory or by providing additional information to the program that's currently showing.

You dont judge the strength of an army by how many soldiers sit and eat in the mess hall, but by how they perform on the front line. Likewise a churchs strength is not seen in how many show up, but in how many serve in the ministry.

You gotta get up early in the morning to mess with me. I mean, I'm a businessman first-you gotta let the business come before the music, because it's all about being a good person and your ego can't get bigger than yourself and the things you're your trying to do, especially when you're promoting an album. So I feel it's real important to be businesslike in anything I do.

There have been occasions such as the 1988 debate involving Dan Quayle when questions were raised about whether the candidate was capable. The vice presidential debates don't matter until people mess up.

We are always wondering what we are going to get. Guys start asking around, and a lot of guys mess around and start little rumors about what we are getting, and set us up for a disappointment.

We didn't play aggressively in the second quarter. The game doesn't allow you to mess around. As hard as we played in the second half, it didn't make a difference.

Both his game and his poise and maturity on the course were critical to our success last year and we expect more of the same this year. He doesn't let one shot mess him up.

Boots are the easiest (fashion accessory) to wear. They're the one thing you just can't mess up.

Every time I do something bad or mess up, he's the first one to come over here. He'll say, 'Man, I did that last year,' ... He makes a joke about it, but he's committed to getting me in the right spot.

Even though it was an easy pin today and an easy day, still you've seen so many people mess it up over the years. It's such a famous hole. That was probably the only nervous shot all day, my tee shot on 12.

Everything's going to turn out great for Casey, because he loved to compete against us, ... He liked to see us screw up, or he liked to make us mess up with his athletic ability.

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

Based on fall results I expect (Courtney) to do very well this weekend. She is only a freshman, but she plays like a junior or a senior. She has the 'don't mess with me' attitude.

As the older guy, I'm in the meetings and it's like, 'Here we go again with this defense. I wonder who's going to mess this up,' ... I give them a little hard time when they mess up something they should know, but that comes along with experience.

At that time, I knew that there were no blacks in the Marine Corps; and the only thing a black did in the Navy - he was a mess attendant.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

Don't mess with me, sir, because you'll get stung.

Don't mess with me, sir, because you'll come out pricked.

Don't mess with me, gentleman; you'll get hurt.

Co-workers can take sides. That really can mess up an office.

Criminality has been covered up and vital questions remain unanswered. There's a massive mess which only a public inquiry can untangle.

Andy's more laid-back. You mess up, you know you're accountable. Huggs did the same thing, but Huggs forced you, which made a lot of players stronger. So we're all dealing with change here and hope to make the best of the situation.

And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.'

Eric handed over the car in good shape. I tried really hard to mess up the win, but fortunately we were able to get it. I can't say enough about my co-driver. He's a young kid, but he's very mature for his age and obviously a very talented driver.

Especially on the road, you've got to attack from the start and set the tone. You can't give the other team a chance to mess around. We've learned from our mistakes of the past. Last year we had a problem with sluggish starts, so we've taken more pride in our starts of late.

First time, yes. Second time, no. He uses that too much, in the back of your mind you know he has that, it's one of those pitches you know you can double clutch and still hit it. If he hasn't thrown it all game and he has two strikes on a guy and he throws it up there, it's going to mess a guy up.

FEMA continues to be able to mess up a one-car funeral -- we don't begin to have enough money for major reconstruction,

There's no better time than March Madness in Illinois high school basketball. It's too bad the IHSA had to mess with it and try to fix what isn't broken.

The toughest thing about being a defensive back in the NFL is you do your job, you don't get credit, but if you mess up one time, you can be the goat. I always try to play the same style of game no matter who I'm going up against.

I stay away from gambling. That's a nice way to lose all your money. I'll stick to the traditional spades game or something like that. I can't mess with the blackjack. I watch Texas Hold 'Em on TV. That's all I need.

It would have been nice to have at least one other person here so I could mess with someone else other than people I don't know.

It would be impossible to mess this up now. We put together the best deals in the country, period. At this point it's just a matter of how big--not if.

It would create an awful mess in Florida, where the labor market is tight by any definition.

I used to always think in my mind that I would never want to mess with Clark Gillies, and next thing you know, he's out there on the ice, squaring off against Dave Schultz.

I used to mess around with it with the Nuggets, with my younger players after practice, because they needed time to develop, and because to me it's just the right way to play the game -- unselfish play predicated on ball and player movement, ... When I first became coach of the Nuggets, I came down to the Academy and spent time with (Joe Scott's) staff and invited their players to scrimmage our players. I knew the Air Force players would make our guys chase them defensively. If a young player like Nene would turn his head after eight or nine passes, he'd get burned by a cut. It really helped us.

Things are just such a mess right now that I don't know.

Things are going to be worse before they get better. But this bill begins the process of driving through the mess we're going to face by changing the regulatory structure by encouraging competition.

They are a Godsend. If not for them we'd still be in a big mess. I mean even a bigger mess that we're in right now.

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

The wind can kind of mess with you a little bit.

I've seen people come back from these situations before and she's a good opponent and I didn't want to mess around.

I've watched tournaments where players had big victories and thought, 'I don't know how easy it would be or how crazy it would be. I felt comfortable and relaxed knowing there was no way I could mess up the tournament.

I've played through a lot of pain, broken bones and things like that. But this is something that's centered. When you mess with your core and your back, I don't know how effective I would be out there today or yesterday. The pain there just kind of shocks your whole body.

It would be different if I was stepping into a place where they'd been terrible on defense and had a whole bunch of turnover within the staff. But the three coaches back are good football coaches and nucleus of our defense is back. I'm just going to go out there and try not to mess it up too bad.

These cards are really hard to mess up because we do laminate them. And we offer the discount for multiple cards that way both parents can carry a card and then give cards to other family members or friends such as grandparents, aunts and uncles.

The teams that mess up are the ones that play not to lose. You don't want to be the first game of the tournament. You'd probably want to be in the middle, but you just have to deal with it.

Some times having a shot rim out does more to mess with your confidence then shooting it too hard. We had a lot of those tonight.

SEGA and SONY are anxious, and they're just trying to mess up our plans as best they can by promising the world everything.

Practice has changed, period, since he's become the offensive coordinator. And he calls you out when you mess up.

Our defense always has to be there. We still have to press and make them commit turnovers. We're going to try to get five-second calls and try to mess them up. Our defense always has to be a terror. We don't want to make anything easy for the other team.

Our defense went crazy. You don't mess with none of our players, but especially Troy, because he's one of those people who doesn't cause trouble to anybody.

People paid Sony for music, not an invasion of their computers. Sony must right the wrong it has committed. Recalling the CD's is a beginning step in the process, but there is a whole lot more mess to clean up.

People are trying to play, they're not out there trying to mess up. That's just how the game goes sometimes. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and unfortunately we were on the losing end today. We know we're better than that.

After creating record deficits and debt with his budget busting tax breaks, the president is asking our seniors, our students, and our families to clean up his fiscal mess with painful cuts in health care and student aid.

stood for the right of states to reject federal civil rights legislation. After Thurmond spoke, Lott told the group, 'You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today.

Something must have gone badly wrong behind the scenes for him to have stepped down. I can see him being the sort of person who wouldn't mess around if something wasn't to his liking - or things were going on - because the job obviously becomes untenable if things are not right behind the scenes.

Some plays you couldn't be as aggressive as you needed to, because if you did, you would mess up the whole defense, something wrong would happen.

One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

Now if you mess up, you mess the whole play up.

Now, all of a sudden, he's thrown into the mess of quarterbacks that I'm a part of.

Once we got in there and started to mess around, we just didn't stop.

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.

And the parking areas were just a muddy mess and we probably would have done more damage than we would have made on the derby,

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.

As for the first-arc villains, there are five and they represent the most dangerous adversaries any X-team has ever faced. Like Uncanny X-Men, New Excalibur is the story of people thrown together by fate and wild circumstance who find their way to true and lasting friendship. They aren't out to save the world, merely to help folks cope with the mess it's in. They may act like grumps from time to time but when you come to their door, they'll almost always make you welcome.

As a start, we'd rather partner with someone who is an expert, ... If you don't have the capability, why mess around trying to learn that on the dime of your customers?

Australia is a bit of a mess but hopefully we won't have to worry too much about that for too much longer.

Bananas are more like flowers, ... you can't mess around with them.

That's good. I'll give him three sliders in a row, right down the middle. You can't mess around with Bobby. If you do, he's going to take you deep.

That's kind of the short-range plan. We're going to get to the Breeders' Cup this year and not mess it up.

You see the closer and the starter on ESPN, and that's it. The only time you see us is when we mess up.

You shouldn't mess around with exhaust systems. You should just get it repaired. It's important.

Your heart is throbbing. You're just wishing somebody will mess up.

You're going to feel good. But no matter how much rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I'd rather a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight, nine more years than come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You can't mess with mom and dad ? Mother Nature and Father Time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

You're always looking for the best deal and the best situation for your client. Jerry Jones is that kind of maverick owner, and you've got a maverick receiver, so why not let them ride off into the sunset together? It's Texas. Don't mess with Texas. It's America's Team, and he's dominated the news in America for quite a while. T.O. is a perfect fit.

This is not the time to mess with us.

This is really quite disturbing, and it looks like it's going to mess up things quite a bit.

This is really a heck of a mess you left me in.

This is something where you mess with the core of your (body), your back, it's tough. I don't know how effective I would be out there today or yesterday because the pain there just shocks your whole body. I've never had something like that before. The last few days it's been constant.

This is the earliest verbal commitment we've received. A lot of kids don't have the insight as to what they want to do, and they spend a lot of time waiting on things. Josh didn't want to mess around waiting for offers, and he decided to come into a program where he can have success on the court and in the classroom.

This city would be a mess without our program. GAPIT is a seven-day-a-week operation, and without it, you would not recognize your city.

This guy can mess you up like they can, and he's been a closer. I like that we got him.

They're supposed to take care of our property. It's their responsibility to clean up the mess they allowed to happen.

They told me to impeach the man, ... This is not only a disgrace to our country but they fear for our national security -- leaving in office a man that is laboring under such a burden. This president is very distracted, they believe, and they want this mess to end.

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

America is a great big team, ... You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.

They offered him $70 million, and he turned it down. It's funny because (in the beginning) the show almost didn't get made. He said, 'I can do it if no one will mess with my material, if they'll let me do what I want creatively, because these people don't know what funny is.' (That's why) I went and did it.

They don't mess around. They're expected to spend whatever it takes to win. They are terribly competitive. They're driven people.

They don't belong here. We don't know where they come from or anything about the. They could be carrying diseases, and they don't make enough money. so they live like rats, 20 or 30 to a house. It makes a mess of the neighborhood and property values go down.

You can't mess with older guys that have a lot more money than you.

You can't mess up your financial independence to put your kids through college, ... If you hit a snag, you don't have as many years to recover.

You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

This place has been a mess for a long time, but a different kind of mess. The war was messy, the decade that preceded the war was messy, the history back to 1912 was messy ... and the task is immense,

The Republicans have created a mess in Iraq. We are not going to clean up that mess overnight. We have some responsibility to those people.

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With drama there's a lot more room to play.

This is the height of a conflict, if ever there were one, ... There is a need for this matter to be looked at by higher authorities. And it's further evidence that there needs to be a cleanup of all the corrupt mess in the borough of Brooklyn.

They're learning, and I keep telling them don't worry if you mess up, just play and don't worry about anything. Craig is stronger and Rob is quicker but they're both efficient. They get the ball where it needs to be.

They're both mental sports. You make one mistake and it can mess up your whole day. In both, you have to learn to deal with it.

They're doing so well, I don't want to mess it up. I might just stay here (rehabilitating his knee in L.A.) for a while.