Just because you're in the U.S., you can't say, 'This EC directive can't affect me.
And, as a small business owner, many of these initiatives are going to affect me.
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It was a little bit different when the roof's closed, but it didn't really affect me today.
Whether it was Michael Jackson sitting there or someone else didn't affect me.
"Fatigue was starting to affect me and my opponent was very strong, " world number 32 Dulgheru told the official WTA Tour Web site.
It may affect some players but it certainly doesn't affect me.
It has been an incredible journey, but the realization that I could choose how I let this affect me was the most empowering moment of my life.
"It didn't affect me mentally in any way, but physically it set me back in training -- 200 training mainly -- practically for maybe a month, " he said.
"It's been in the news, and I think about it, but it doesn't personally affect me, " said Corrina Waxman, 21, a film student at Purchase College, a small liberal arts school just north of New York City.
Not massively, but enough to affect me.
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And a small business might wonder, I don't know how the energy bill is going to affect me, I don't know how the health care reform bill is going to affect me -- I'd better hold off on hiring.
If the millions of internet-connected Macs are left open to attack then this increases the chance that an effective Trojan or piece of spyware will reach critical mass and spread rapidly, and it also increases the incentive for a bright programmer to write Mac-specific malware that could affect me.
"It will not affect anything: me or the relationship, " he said.
On a webinar last week someone asked me how I thought the Japanese tsunami would affect the future of nuclear power around the world, and in the U.S. in particular.
It took me leaving a 20-year career on Wall Street, having a baby at 43 and a living through a couple of serious health scares to realize that my own health and wellbeing greatly affect the health and wellbeing of everyone and everything around me.
It didn't affect my relationship with him and it didn't stop me from talking to him.
Everyone around me seemed like automatons, robots, without the affect I was used to from before the accident.
"Fatigue may affect us during the race and my agent has indicated to me that he another jet will pick us in Spain, " added Wanjiru.
And one of the things that really struck me was how little our elected officials really know about the issues that affect our economy.
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To me, the moral of the story is that poor or unlucky financial decisions affect many Americans, irrespective of fame.
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East Midlands MEP Glenis Willmott told me that people expect Labour to be on their side - on issues that affect them locally and globally.
The principles of Feng Shui got me thinking about what influence the placement of things and objects in an advertising environment can affect the impact and outcome of a marketing campaign.
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