Quotes About Control

We're going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

I despise places where you have to have an assigned seat. Makes me feel like I'm at the airport.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

I think if you try to force a personality on a world then I think you're destined to fail.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Sometimes we equate anger to destructive physical violence, but anger need not be martial.

I'm so proud of myself. I got to this level through my hard work, my determination and I'm fortunate enough to be working for a football club that I adore, that have given me license to do this and I work with a set of players that were always in control, even when I didn't feel like I was!

You determine your reality.

It's no good me talking about my future. I don't determine my future, other people do.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.