Control Quotes
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I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
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I think it's clear we're in damage control now.
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
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The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
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The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
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It is not easy for the courts to control the intelligence agencies. There has to be concerted and coordinated effort on part of the courts, the parliament, and the government.
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As long as people are either hyperaroused or shut down, they cannot learn from experience. Even if they manage to stay in control, they become so uptight (Alcoholics Anonymous calls this “white-knuckle sobriety”) that they are inflexible, stubborn, and depressed. Recovery from trauma involves the restoration of executive functioning and, with it, self-confidence and the capacity for playfulness and creativity. If we want to change posttraumatic reactions, we have to access the emotional brain and do “limbic system therapy”: repairing faulty alarm systems and restoring the emotional brain to its ordinary job of being a quiet background presence that takes care of the housekeeping of the body, ensuring that you eat, sleep, connect with intimate partners, protect your children, and defend against danger.
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.
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I'm very specific about what I put out on social media about myself. But that's also why I like social media: because it feels like the only thing that I have to control my own image.
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I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.
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The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.
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I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.
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Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.
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Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.
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The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
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People ought to have more control over their lives.
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In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
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Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
