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Quotes About Control

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.
~ Carol Alt
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
~ Jean Genet
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.
~ Chloe Sevigny
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
~ Ulrich Beck
We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!
~ Aparna Sen
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
~ Bob Barr
The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives - that's an immense amount of power.
~ Sam Esmail
Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
~ Mark Ruffalo
We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.
~ Pim Fortuyn
We are not against immigration, but we want to have control on immigration. We want to decide who is allowed to come into Austria. We should not let human traffickers decide.
~ Sebastian Kurz
In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in.
~ Michael Gove
Government is essentially immoral.
~ Herbert Spencer
I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.
~ Didier Deschamps
Even when you bowl a bad over, try to restrict it in between 15-18 runs, because if you go higher than that, it has a bigger impact on the game.
~ MS Dhoni
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
~ Paul Ryan
I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. It's a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.
~ Jo Johnson
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
~ Joanna Lumley
I've been a pretty impatient driver my entire life.
~ Michael Waltrip
Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
~ Pankaj Mishra
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.
~ Ry Cooder
We must keep attracting the brightest and best migrants from around the world. And we must implement a new immigration system after we leave the E.U. that gives us control and works in all of our interests.
~ Amber Rudd
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
~ Joseph Story
We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.
~ Ezekiel Elliott