Control Quotes
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A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.
Conan O'Brien
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People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
Azim Premji
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Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.
David Stras
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You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
Jason Robert Brown
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I'm an in-control person.
Ana Ivanovic
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I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.
Paco Rabanne
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It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.
Joel McHale
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The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.
Dusty Baker
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An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
Joel Kinnaman
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There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.
Eli Pariser
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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
John Updike
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Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
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We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
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The dominant notion of rationality is a capitalist notion of rationality, that is, whatever is profitable, whatever can be organised in terms of social control of labour-power and control of natural resources.
David Harvey
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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
Aristotle
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You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
Art Alexakis
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It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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The essential nature cannot be corporeal, yet it is also clear that this soul is present in a particular bodily part, and this one of the parts having control over the rest.
Aristotle
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If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
Kevin O'Leary
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We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.
Francis Alys
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
David Frum
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As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
Alexander Haig
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.
Ian Bremmer