There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
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.
~By Lee De Forest ~
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
~By Gary Oldman ~
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
~By William Glasser ~
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
~By Meg Tilly ~
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
~By Robert Redford ~
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
~By Joe Slovo ~
There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
~By Peter Steele ~
Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.
~By Kay Granger ~
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
~By Jeff Probst ~
I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
~By Richard Gere ~
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
~By Robert Redford ~
I lose all control after two drinks of anything.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
~By Afrika Bambaataa ~
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
~By Joan Didion ~
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
~By Henry L. Stimson ~
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
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.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
~By John Poindexter ~
Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
~By Epictetus ~
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
~By Wietse Venema ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~By Terry Southern ~
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
~By Laura Dern ~
I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
~By Aimee Mann ~
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
~By Tim Holden ~
No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.
~By Neve Campbell ~
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
~By Keith Miller ~
Religion is just mind control.
~By George Carlin ~
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
~By Lao Tzu ~
We're all controlled neurotics.
~By Harry Reasoner ~
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
My definition of success is control.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
~By Javier Bardem ~
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
~By Rick Wright ~
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
~By Zach Wamp ~
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
~By Michael Richards ~
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
~By David Seabury ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
~By John Walker Lindh ~
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
~By Daniel Johns ~
The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.
~By Paul Harrison ~
I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.
~By John Zorn ~
Professional sports are something they can't control.
~By Troy Vincent ~
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
~By Linda Lingle ~
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I'm not a control freak.
~By Fiona Apple ~
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.
~By Tyra Banks ~
I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.
~By Robert Gibbs ~
They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.
~By Jami Gertz ~
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
~By Yuan T. Lee ~
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
~By Norman Foster ~
The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms.
~By Diane Douglas ~
Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
~By Denis Diderot ~
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
~By Rose Byrne ~
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
~By Thurgood Marshall ~
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.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
~By Mitt Romney ~
It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.
~By Judd Nelson ~
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsberg ~
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
~By Ted Demme ~
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
~By Jan de Bont ~
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
~By Robert Urich ~
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
I love clothes. I can't control myself. I have a huge fetish for shoes and clothes and make-up. I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to wear things over and over again.
~By Hilary Duff ~
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