Quotes with control-freak

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  • Tom Hopkins Do what you fear most and you control fear.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Abraham Kaplan Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Philip Roth Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Philip Roth Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Louis Aragon Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Demick For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Boris Spassky For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Brad Feld For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Brian Tracy Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Ralph W. Sockman Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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  • Ban Ki-moon Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ben Carson Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Don Marquis Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bob Filner However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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