Quotes About Control

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

You can make sure your kids make their beds and hang up their clothes and put their dishes in the dishwasher when you're the one calling the shots. So, parenting alone, for me anyway, I think is almost easier, being single.

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

I'm not going to go out there and throw the ball all around the park and throw it to the other team.

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

It is not easy for the courts to control the intelligence agencies. There has to be concerted and coordinated effort on part of the courts, the parliament, and the government.

This is not about abolishing parliamentary power. It's about rebalancing power.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

But I mean, I'm a confident kid. I want to be a kid that kind of drives the bus, doesn't just be a passenger.