Quotes with control-freak

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  • Caitlin Moran If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Watterson If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Anne Enright If you try to control it too much, the book is dead.
    (2014)
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Taylor Swift If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bob Barr In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Billy Evans In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bryson In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Joan Didion Information is control.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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