Command Quotes
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I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
Eileen Collins
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
Merle Haggard
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
James Anthony Froude
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Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.
Anthony Robbins
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
Howard Stern
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If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
Thomas Carlyle
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca the Younger
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And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
Bohumil Hrabal
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Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
Avis Bohlen
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
George Washington
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Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.
David Lilienthal
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.
Harry S Truman
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
