Quotes About Control

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are the boss; you set the pace and rhythm of your reading. In the movie house, you can't do that.

Control is what gives you privacy.

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

The Patriotic Act allows the American government to snoop around anybody's business at any time. Nobody has privacy anymore. Everybody can hack into anybody's system and find out everything about that person's life because it's all on a computer.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

We will never have Russian-style privatization.

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.