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Control Quotes
"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."
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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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"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
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"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"
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"We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then."
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"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."
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"To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders."
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"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
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"I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still."
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"Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control."
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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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"Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell."
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"The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country."
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"But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience."
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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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"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."
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"I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details."
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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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"You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused."
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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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"I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out."
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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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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
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"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions."
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"And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over."
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"My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."
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"Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God."
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"You know we're going to control the insurance companies."
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"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will."
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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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"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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