For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
Nicholson Baker
BeginningMeControlWorldLiving
It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Rob Walton
BusinessPowerMoneyControlRules
But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
Dennis Eckersley
ExperienceControlBodyBallThrough
I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.
Payne Stewart
MeControlThinkHelpWantBecome
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Kevin Mitnick
ControlBetterPhoneHackerCompany
President-elect Trump and I know it won't be Washington, D.C., that unlocks our nation's potential, nor a bigger bureaucracy, tougher mandates, or a federal agency. The answer is local control and listening to parents, students, and teachers.
Betsy DeVos
ParentsListeningControlPotential
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
John Thorn
BusinessBaseballControlManagement
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.
Miriam Toews
I AmChaosWritingControlMeaning
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
Bryan Stevenson
MaturityParentsControlDecisions
In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.
Ryan Zinke
ControlPoliticalSeeingRhetoric
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
John Doolittle
TodayControlInternetWayBecome
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August von Hayek
ScienceControlAchievePrinciples
One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
Nick Mason
MistakesControlLookBackCareer
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
Rita Mae Brown
LifeLiveLive LifeControlThink
For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.
Derek Hough
MeControlBodyWantNothingMore
What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.
Sheena Iyengar
ControlChoicesFeelYouMoreClear
Everybody is an expert. But at Under Armour, I want people to control what they can control. Leave the pontificating to everyone else. Leave all that negative talk to everyone else.
Kevin Plank
PeopleControlNegativeWantTalk
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture - in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
Bernice King
MusicCultureVideo GamesControl
I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.
Amy Poehler
ControlLittleGetSomeItchy
With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set.
Mitski
WorkControlSongFeelYouNew
Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
Brit Marling
FutureYourselfMeWaitControlYou
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.
Richard Carmona
WomanMedicalControlProblemsMoral
Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
Andrew Weil
HealthMedicalControlPressureTop
We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.
Freddie Wong
CreativeControlWantWhateverGiant
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