So every day I’m mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. – Todd Gitlin
‘The Underland Chronicles’ is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn’t; they just kept moving the violence forward until it’s gone out of control. – Suzanne Collins
I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there’s a moment of panic. On the other hand there’s a lot of control that users have. – Susan Wojcicki
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you’re sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It’s about control. – Tracey Gold
To be honest, after you’ve crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control – you might get some food if you’re lucky. You might see family if you’re lucky. – Victoria Pendleton
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka
Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations or more government control – such as the government takeover of health care or the restrictions in domestic energy production. – Tim Walberg
Once you become a producer, you’re really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don’t really know how it’s going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it. – Scott Cohen
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control – that I wasn’t a puppet. – Sean Parker
What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You’ve no control over those things, so in a way, it’s wasted energy to think of them. – Victoria Pendleton
Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws. – William Lyon Mackenzie King
I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina. – Shay Carl
I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts. – Virginia Foxx
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that’s the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. – William Odom
Cancer is really a DNA disease… We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it’s a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that’s when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control. – Sam Kean
I’d say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what’s happening around us. – Stephen LaBerge
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. – Shakti Gawain
It should tell you something that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI’s ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. – Terry Glavin
It’s the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that’s true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around. – Sarah Gadon
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. – Sara Sheridan
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. – Terry Southern
Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content. – Steve Crocker
Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn’t have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That’s why I decided to start Amber House Books. – Teresa Medeiros
‘What if?’ statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control. – Travis Bradberry
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! – Sara Blakely
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can’t control – ‘Forbidden Planet’s Monsters of the Id. – Virginia Postrel
So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is. – Suzanne Vega
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing. – Stephen Sprouse