Cass McCombs Quotes

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

Cass McCombs

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Work
  • Change

• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Need
  • Information

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Food
  • Control

• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• Repeating is harder than anything else.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Anything
  • Else
  • Repeating

• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Lucky
  • Anything

• Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Need
  • Her

• I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Goals
  • Interested
  • Anything

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Control
  • Pain

• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationship
  • Need
  • Dating

• You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • You
  • Need

• Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Need
  • Mistakes

• We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

  

  Major Owens
  • World
  • Need
  • Terrorism

• Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,' ... 'we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • Long
  • War
  • Control

• If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Years
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I'm much a person that's very likable and lovable.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Time
  • Done
  • Job

• It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Control
  • Need
  • Anything