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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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"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
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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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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
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"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control."
12
"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."
12
"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."
11
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
10
"We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives."
10
"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
10
"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."
10
"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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"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."
8
"I support population control. I think USA should do the same."
7
"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."
7
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you 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."
7
"She'll be really impressed if you take control and let her follow your lead."
6
"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection."
6
"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."
6
"But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance."
6
"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
6
"It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life."
6
"I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best."
6
"I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details."
5
"This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook."
5
"It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom."
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