Dalia Mogahed Quotes
They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

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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.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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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.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
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I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.
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They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.