Quotes About Control

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

You can't manufacture a career as an actor because you aren't in control of what projects come to you, unless you are No. 1, two, three or four in the world.

Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Promoters need you. You don't need them... The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don't know that.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

When a few people control the bulk of money, they can not only influence elections by money power - which enables various forms of advertising and propaganda campaigns - they can also corrupt and misuse all institutions of the state to influence elections.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

I am a control freak. I want everything to be prim and proper.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.