#controlling

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. ↗

— Gary Ross

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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ↗

— John Paul Warren

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A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

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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

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

— Bertrand Russell

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Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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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

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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

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I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#change #controlling #encourage #even #exactly