Control Quotes
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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
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Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.
Anna Akana
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In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
Jami Attenberg
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Donald Norman
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I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.
K. D. Lang
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My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.
Alexandra Petri
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I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function.
Billy Graham
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We approached Yahoo and Jerry Yang and said that Hadoop is going to continue to be popular, and as it does, more and more of your team is going to get poached by other companies and come under pressure to leave. This way, you can control your own fate and destiny.
Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
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The market had reasserted itself as an impersonal force beyond the power of any person to control, and, while this is the way markets are supposed to be, it was horrible.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga
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We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.
Jeh Johnson
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As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.
Louise Erdrich
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Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control … Don't let people know the ideas you love, the games you've played, the places you've visited in your mind. Keep your treasure to yourself.
Douglas Coupland
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He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
P. G. Wodehouse
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This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.
Ansel Elgort
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There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
Kathy Ireland
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Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
Gene Luen Yang
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Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
Lev Yilmaz
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I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.
Babasaheb
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I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.
Mackenzie King
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The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can't afford to take.
Bill Nelson
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Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
Margaret Sanger
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Arnold must have for us the something of the character of what we nowadays have taken to calling a 'culture hero': that is, a man who gives himself in full submission and sacrifice to his historical moment in order to comprehend and control the elements which that moment brings.
Lionel Trilling