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• I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Stuff, Caterpillars, Company

  Source: www.roadrunner.travel

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• The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.213, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

  Jack Nicholson

  Circumstances

  Source: cinema.com

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• A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

  Alex Jones

  Thinking, Government, Media

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• 70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Government, Profound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.

  Lena Dunham

  Toxic, Culture, Want

  "The Conversation With Actor/Writer/Director/Producer (And Runner) Lena Dunham". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

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• This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Self

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• He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Healing, Wind, Mountain

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• The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Thinking, Differences, Political

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• Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

  Anthony Powell

  Hands, Dexterity, Emotion

  Anthony Powell (2014). “Afternoon Men: A Novel”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.

  Robert Hughes

  Strong, Stupid, Thinking

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.17, Knopf

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• Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.

  Jon Porter

  Horse, Believe, Responsibility

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• By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

  Michael Moore

  Men, Media, People

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• A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

  Robert Atkins

  Heart, Risk, Disease

  "Atkins diet author home after cardiac arrest". www.cnn.com. April 25, 2002.

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• I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Views, Glasses, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels.

  Redman

  Jewels, Car, Culture

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

  Henry Cavill

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Mind

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• My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

  Philippe Claudel

  Yield, Cooking, Soul

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

  Sam Keen

  Animal, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

  Zakk Wylde

  Blue, Add, Looks

  Source: spotlightreport.net

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• The weight of your body is controlled by the image in your mind.

  Bob Proctor

  Mind, Weight, Body

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• Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

  Woody Allen

  Evil, Groups, Knows

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• People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.

  Lily Allen

  Successful, Men, People

  "Vintage festival promises more glamour than Glastonbury" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2010.

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• We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

  Adi Da

  Defined

  Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj (1978). “The Enlightenment of the Whole Body: A Rational and New Prophetic Revelation of the Truth of Religion, Esoteric Spirituality, and the Divine Destiny of Man”

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