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Control Quotes
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
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"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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"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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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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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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"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
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"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
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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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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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"The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process."
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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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"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth 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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"There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating."
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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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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."
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"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
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"If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase."
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"Who rules the world? - It's for sure, ain't you!"
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"I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure."
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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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"I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate."
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"If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game."
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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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"As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage."
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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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"John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career."
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"I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact."
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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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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