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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Quotations regarding 'Control'

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Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.
Puff Daddy, American Musician (1970-  )
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian (1921-2004)
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin, English Scientist (1809-1882)
I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.
Mike Davidson, -
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies, British Musician (1947-  )
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies, British Businessman (1950-  )
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.
Len Dawson, American Athlete (1935-  )
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.
Christopher Dawson, English Writer
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Taylor Dayne, American Musician (1962-  )
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.
Tom DeLay, American Politician (1947-  )
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
Jim DeMint, American Politician (1951-  )
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.
Ted Demme, American Director (1963-2002)
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
Judi Dench, English Actress (1934-  )
I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.
Judi Dench, English Actress (1934-  )
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern, American Actress (1967-  )
Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.
William Devane, American Actor (1940-  )
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.
Susan Dey, American Actress (1952-  )
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian Actress (1978-  )
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
Rocco DiSpirito, American Celebrity (1966-  )
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick, American Writer (1928-1982)
 
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