Adi Da Quotes
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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I struggle with control.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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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.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
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I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
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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.
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But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
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I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.
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Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
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You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!
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I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
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Everybody's got scars. It's not so unique.
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If you look up every last detail on your subject, you'll never finish.
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Relax. Nothing is under control.
