Quotes About Control

I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.

I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

The fact is, marriage is just a legal piece of paper. I don't see why the government needs to get involved in what two people do with their lives. It's none of their business.

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.

Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.

I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

When you're type A you always think you can fix anything. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand.

The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.