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It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. -- Sheryl Lee
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernighan
Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman. -- Buck Brannaman
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife. -- Laura Schlessinger
Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life. -- Richard Lindzen
Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable -- Serj Tankian
A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it -- Jack Welch
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is. -- Veronica Roth
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that. -- Queen Latifah
Controlling the interpretation of the Constitution is vital to the leftist agenda of expanding the federal government's power. That means keeping the federal judiciary as liberal as possible and treating the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal legacy as sacrosanct. -- Joseph Sobran
It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. -- Deepak Chopra
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work. -- Gloria Steinem
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love. -- Lao Tzu
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling. -- Gary Busey
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. -- James Allen
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on. -- Nigella Lawson
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. -- Raoul Vaneigem
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. -- Bill Shankly
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. -- Carre Otis
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced. -- Aimee Mullins
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. -- Michael Ende
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. -- Taslima Nasrin
It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business. -- Ron Howard
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. -- Chuck Norris
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. -- Lee De Forest
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. -- W. Clement Stone
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. -- Paulo Coelho
It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life. -- Sharon Salzberg
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way. -- Marilyn Manson
When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me. -- Victoria Beckham
I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. -- Gary Ross
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. -- Macaulay Culkin
No controlling legal authority -- Al Gore
Corporate money is controlling everything. -- Ed Schultz
I am all for controlling guns. -- Rainn Wilson
You can't be controlling in improv. -- Matt Walsh
You cant be controlling in improv. -- Matt Walsh
My instinct is to be very controlling. -- Gary Kemp
A controlling man, surely a mythical creature? -- E. L. James
All that foreign oil controlling American soil. -- Bob Dylan
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. -- Sylvester Stallone
There's a big difference between guiding and controlling. -- Colin Munroe
What I try to control ends up controlling me. -- Susan Jeffers
Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing. -- Penney Peirce
If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China. -- Alex Chiu
In all my works, light is an important controlling factor. -- Tadao Ando
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. -- Gilda Radner
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. -- Rudolph Valentino
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common... -- Charley Reese
Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals -- Asa Don Brown
To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. -- Conrad Hilton
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. -- Mike White
It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal. -- Alisher Usmanov
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. -- Bertrand Russell
Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts. -- John Harricharan
The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. -- Michael Fish
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest. -- Cullen Hightower
Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts? -- Raymond Holliwell
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. -- Bashar al-Assad
Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without. -- Erin Morgenstern
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. -- Gloria Steinem
The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger. -- Camille Paglia
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist! -- Willie Soon
I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level. -- Sandra Bullock
The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature. -- Swami Vivekananda
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. -- Ronald Reagan
A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity. -- Daniel H. Pink
My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling. -- Christina Ricci
If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you. -- Joyce Meyer
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. -- Vandana Shiva
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. -- Wendell Phillips
The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people. -- David Lincoln
I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win. -- Tiger Woods
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people. -- Gary Kemp
I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself. -- Carl Hubbell
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing. -- Eliphas Levi
If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them. -- Jimmy Evans
It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way. -- GG Allin
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom. -- B. F. Skinner
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. -- Ronald Graham
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. -- Marcus Aurelius
Having a few companies controlling everything we read, see or hear is destroying our culture. -- Lawrence Blume
There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period. -- Veronica Roth
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. -- George W. Bush
When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen. -- Zig Ziglar
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. -- Elizabeth Hurley
I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream. -- J. Michael Straczynski
In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything. -- Hayley Mills
The government is controlling your mind through chem trails, we all know this is true. -- Greg Gutfeld
And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow. -- Barbara Castle
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game. -- Benjamin Graham
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? -- Justina Chen
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry Adams
And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow. -- Barbara Castle
The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life. -- Prentice Mulford
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. -- Annie Baker
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us -- Gloria Steinem
If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself. -- William J. H. Boetcker
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. -- Luke Scott
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. -- William Westney
You control what you do offensively, defensively. You're controlling who you play, how you want to play. -- Steve Alford
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. -- Voltaire
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. -- Epictetus
I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight. -- Georgette Mosbacher
Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film. -- Don Bluth
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. -- Sam Harris
Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible. -- John C. Maxwell

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