#controlling

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#any #before #controlling #desire #even

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#better #compete #controlling #get #just

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#better job #borders #controlling #demanding #eastern

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#charge #controlling #crucially #flow #information

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#controlling #laugh #making #people #very

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #company #controlling #diligence #due

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#consumer #controlling #day #destiny #every

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#both #boyfriend #compulsive #controlling #i

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#creative #force #rather #reason #than

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#controlling #developed #effectively #eliminate #established