Quotes About Control

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.

Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.

We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never compromised myself in this career once. I've never done something I didn't believe in.

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

I don't interfere with regulators.

I'm not a big fan of government interference in most matters.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.