Quotes with control-freak

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  • Barbara Amiel 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.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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  • Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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  • Aaron McGruder The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Philip K. Dick 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 science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bethany McLean The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Albert Claude The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Richard Dawkins The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
    The God Delusion
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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