Quotes About Control

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

More than stopping the counter-attack when it happens you want to prevent it from starting.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Don't accept what a grocery store has for you. Tell the store to get you want you want. If you want honey from a local farmer, organic honey, you tell them. We are in control. It's up to us as the consumer to get what we want.

On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.

Brick and mortar stores will ultimately mark down between 50 to 60% of its merchandise because they don't know who's walking in the door on any day, so they lose control.

The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the better off you're going to be.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don't think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they'd be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.