Control quotes

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I find people who are rude usually feel powerless in their own lives. Terrified of not being in control.

- Linda Martin

Standard birth control methods are usually ineffective against a Swanson.

- Ron Swanson

We can't control what happens to us, only how it affects us and the choices we make.

- Chloe Decker

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.

- Nia Long

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

- Roy Ayers

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

- Debbie Allen

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

- Morley Safer

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

- Tracy Chapman

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

- Larry Elder

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

- Jan Schakowsky

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

- Bobby Brown

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

- Mary Hart

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

- Thomas E. Mann

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

- Mike Gordon

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

- Joe Torre

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

- Pat Paulsen

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

- Orison Swett Marden

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.

- Clay Aiken

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

- Joel Coen

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

- Freda Adler