Adam Garfinkle Quotes

Gun control advocates seem to be under the impression that governments can pass new felony legislation that will take guns off the streets without requiring more aggressive policing, without putting more people in prison...

Adam Garfinkle

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Time
  • American
  • Study

• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Children
  • Book
  • Kids

• When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.

  

  Kaskade
  • Me
  • Control
  • Challenge

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Control
  • Over
  • Screen

• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Job
  • Hope

• And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Control
  • Product

• Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Control
  • Hands

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Control
  • Air
  • Year

• I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time.... what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• I think it getting a gun should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Training
  • Gun

• Culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns - customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters - as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms - plans, recipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call 'programs') - for the governing of behavior.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Control

• No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Job
  • Energy
  • Control

• The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Control

• In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Community

• It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

  

  John Pilger
  • People
  • Control

• I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Control

• The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Shoes

• I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Humor
  • Snob

• Gun control advocates seem to be under the impression that governments can pass new felony legislation that will take guns off the streets without requiring more aggressive policing, without putting more people in prison...

  

  Adam Garfinkle
  • Control
  • Gun
  • Governments