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Control Quotes
"The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control."
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"Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it."
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"I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by."
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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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"She'll be really impressed if you take control and let her follow your lead."
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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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"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."
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"My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately."
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"It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control."
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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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"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 scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information."
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"I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on."
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"While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations."
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"Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor."
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"I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control."
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"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
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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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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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"The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex."
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"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more."
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"I lose all control after two drinks of anything."
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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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"Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control."
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"In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film."
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"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label."
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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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"In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces."
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"The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism."
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"My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control."
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"I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful."
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"It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life."
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"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock."
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"Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."
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