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Quotes About Control

There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.
~ Eli Pariser
In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind eye is generally turned to the fact that ensuing crackdowns provide a great excuse to tighten mechanisms to censor all content the Chinese government doesn't like.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.
~ Aretha Franklin
There are so many moving parts to a wedding, and I, it turns out, am a bit of a perfectionist.
~ Jeremiah Brent
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.
~ Martha Beck
I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.
~ Keegan Bradley
The Kraken is a giant monster that just demolishes everything that moves. On Wednesday or Thursday, I go down in my subconscious. I find him, and I unlock the cage. About Saturday he usually comes out. Then he's always out on Sunday. I don't control him then. What he does when I'm not there, I don't know.
~ Greg Hardy
My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
~ Paul Nurse
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
~ Paul Harvey
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
~ Nina Fedoroff
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
~ Monty Don
For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indulgences. I can't just be scoffing cakes and biscuits five nights a week.
~ Anthony Joshua
Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They'd be telling our soldiers: 'That's enough. You've fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!'
~ Tom Seaver
Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.
~ Pete Holmes
I've learned that I can be calm during important points.
~ Bianca Andreescu
I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.
~ Floor Jansen
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
~ Rajiv Ouseph
In poker, position is power. When you've got position, play more hands and apply more pressure before the flop.
~ Daniel Negreanu
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I don't have much faith... in the government police.
~ Roger Ver
Police are the enforcers of America's agenda.
~ Scarface
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
~ William S. Burroughs