Control Quotes
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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
Charlie Hunnam
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Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.
M. Scott Peck
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Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.
James Altucher
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
James Hillman
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
Orson Scott Card
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When we kicked - along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, 'Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know - if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.' Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
Joe Biden
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
Efua Dorkenoo
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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
James R. Clapper
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When I model, I use every single muscle in my body. Being fit and physical lets me know that control.
Elsa Hosk
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For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
Jason Calacanis
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The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.
Jodie Whittaker
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
Madeline Zima
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The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
Pal Benko
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For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
Kelis Rogers
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One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.
Jared Harris
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Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.
Shailene Woodley
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Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
Alexander Hamilton
