Control Quotes
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The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.
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I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
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You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
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I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it intensely until you felt like it was done, and then when you finished it, that was the final stage. I started to realize that that's not actually the completion of it. The final stage of any kind of art is to really lose control over it and let it affect other people. You can't control the effect that it has on people, but you hope that it has some sort of reaction. You just hope that they're not indifferent to it, you wanna make people feel something, whether it's love or hate.
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I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.
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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
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Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
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Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
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Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
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We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
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When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?
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We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.
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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.
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You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.
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In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.
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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.
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But once I was out there I felt in control of the situation, adrenalin kicks in and you know what your job is, although when Warne is bowling like that it's tricky.
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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
