Control Quotes
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The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.
Napoleon Hill -
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
Mehmet Oz
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Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
Bob Marley -
I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
Angie Stone -
I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
Adolfo Cambiaso -
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres -
I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
Adam Sandler -
When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
John Banville
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
Lenny Kravitz -
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
Jada Pinkett Smith -
When we talk with policymakers about Facebook, it's about how users have control over information.
Marne Levine -
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Vandana Shiva -
You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
Aisha Tyler -
I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach.
Margo Lanagan
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We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.
Blase J. Cupich -
Nothing is so contemptible as habitual contempt. It is impossible to remain long under its control without being dwarfed by its influence.
Elias Lyman Magoon -
I think we will see personalized music stations in the next few years... controlled by computer algorithms... I think it will be important that... listeners have an 'adventuresomeness' knob that will control the mix of old and new, or the mix of how far out the new music is from what they usually listen to.
Daniel Levitin -
Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
Mike Tyson -
Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.
Luke Davies -
Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything around you - every opportunity is shut. You don't have anyone showing you how to rise above, you don't have any resources, and everyone around you is losing that battle too, then yeah, you want something that you have control over that makes you feel like you're running your brain for a minute.
Alan Sparhawk
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One of my skills is knowing, 'This is where I'm needed, and this is how I'm needed and where I'm going to be in control and where I'm going to cede control and why.'
Marc Platt -
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.
Jenny Zhang -
I only have control over what I do.
Santino Fontana -
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education-just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office-and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
Frank Chodorov