Cilla Black Quotes

I like being in charge of the remote control.

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• 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

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Control
  • Difficult
  • Run

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

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

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

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Control
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Control
  • Path
  • Leadership

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• 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

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Understanding

• I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to build public courses. I am willing to meet the minister and discuss ways to make courses public and more accessible to the regular sports enthusiasts.

  

  Jeev Milkha Singh
  • Sports

• Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Power

• I like being in charge of the remote control.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Control