Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982.
Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.
Air superiority, which the United States has taken for granted since World War II, is no longer assured. And, without control of the skies, U.S. ships and soldiers would be vulnerable in ways that are difficult to imagine.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.
I’m obsessive, I’m a control freak, I get snappy with people.
The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.
To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
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.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
I suppose I hit my lowest point in the early to mid-80s, which is when things really spun out of control for me.
Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.
I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.
When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.
