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Control Quotes
"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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"One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore."
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"My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control."
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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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"With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high."
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"Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands."
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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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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
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"With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible."
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"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."
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"The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused."
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"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."
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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
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"I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset."
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"Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity."
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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."
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"And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically."
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"With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic."
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"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
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"We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration."
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"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."
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"Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control."
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"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."
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"If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control."
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"If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats."
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"Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country."
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"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer."
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"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine."
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"I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films."
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"This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."
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"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."
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