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Control Quotes
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
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"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
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"I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography."
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"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
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"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
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"Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game."
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"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives."
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"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
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"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
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"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
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"Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration."
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"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."
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"The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process."
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."
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"I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity."
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"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."
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"Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control."
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"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
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"The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States."
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"It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control."
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"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."
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"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
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"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."
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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
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"But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger."
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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
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"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."
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"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
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