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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Edward St Aubyn
Me
People
Control
Other
Way
Detachment
No Control
Seeing
Had
Over
Forces
How
Were
Been
Any
Any Other Way
Interests
Product
Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
Ehud Olmert
Will
Control
Situation
State
Weapons
Directly
Israel
Iran
Effective
Which
Against
Used
Tolerate
Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.
Ehud Olmert
Country
Control
President
Syria
He
Over
Fairly
His
Effective
We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.
Elaine Chao
Positive
World
Nation
Control
Our
Futures
See
Some
About
More
Individual
Through
Over
Prism
Than
American
Which
Media
Largely
Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
Eli Pariser
Work
You
Privacy
Facebook
Yourself
Google
Control
Other
Willing
See
Able
About
Baked
Principle
Reveal
Revealed
How
Than
Bigger
Information
Whether
Them
Themselves
Should
Companies
Users
Basic
I have control issues. For sure, no question.
Eli Roth
Control
No Question
Sure
Issues
Question
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root
Nature
Injustice
Will
Ambition
Control
Human Nature
Must
Perfection
Generations
Exclude
Come
Selfishness
Than
Human
Much
Prejudice
Many
Now
Nearer
The powers that technology and independent contracting give to workers enables them to take greater control of their careers to preserve work-life balance.
Elise Stefanik
Technology
Balance
Control
Independent
Give
Take
Powers
Greater
Enables
Contracting
Them
Workers
Careers
Preserve
Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.
Elizabeth Debicki
Work
Time
Me
You
Better
Wait
Control
Think
Our
Given
More
Most
Parts
Always
Doing
Up
Get
Irony
Craft
Just
Then
Acting
Your
Actor
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Elizabeth Edwards
Cancer
Control
Think
Our
Over
Deny
Any
Intention
Us
All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Food
Family
You
Dog
Own
Control
Group
Enough
Others
Members
Must
Taking
Because
Territory
Dogs
Wolves
Domestic
Very
Then
Aware
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Love
Writing
Lose
Control
Out
Possible
Give
Stuff
Like
Where
Wanting
Much
Really
Actor
Started
I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
Elizabeth Olsen
You
Whatever
Control
Believe
Worry
About
Only
Much
It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and Mustard. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to have a mentor like him to advise me. Even though he gives me a lot of creative control, I always go to him like, 'Do you like this?' It's so cool that it's always a collaborative effort. He never makes me feel pressured or anything.
Ella Mai
Thankful
Music
Me
You
Creative
Big
Control
Collaborative
Though
Pressured
Mustard
Brother
Gives
Mentor
Never
He
Feel
Like
Him
Advise
Big Brother
Makes
Always
Go
Lot
Than
Effort
Anything
Creative Control
Cool
Even
Deeper
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Ellen G. White
Will
Parents
Own
Control
Nothing
Bend
Else
Spirits
Shall
Perfect
Firmness
Over
Wishes
Until
Yield
Expect
Child
Should
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Ellen Key
Education
Art
Mistake
Natural
Control
Nine
Immediate
Faults
Consists
Out
Ten
Allowed
Environment
Go
Up
Itself
Times
Child
Children
Which
Interference
Ignoring
Vigilance
Avoiding
Whole
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
Ellen Tauscher
Time
Leadership
Become
Control
Others
Once
Responsible
India
Vital
Threats
Facing
Had
Attempting
Powers
Arms
Korea
Iran
North
America
North Korea
Nations
Convince
Pakistan
Nuclear
My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
Elliot Richardson
Important
Control
Monster
Must
Direction
Attempt
Most
Democratic
Task
Bring
Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you're doing.
Elsa Hosk
You
Important
Control
Just Be
Exactly
Exactly What
Able
Having
Over
Like
Know
Look
Doing
Modelling
Just
Body
Your
Your Body
Whole
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
Elton Gallegly
Control
Local
Local Governments
Must
Over
Know
Governments
Mayor
Former
Decisions
Land
Use
I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.
Emily Ratajkowski
You
Women
Control
Think
Changing
Characters
One-Dimensional
See
More
More And More
Directors
Writers
Taking
Female
Female Characters
Male
Lot
Hollywood
Really
We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.
Emma Caulfield
Love
Freedom
Creative
Control
Complete
Worry
Web
About
Having
Answer
Anybody
Mean
Creative Control
Regulations
I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
Emma Watson
Life
Me
My Life
Control
Desperately
Complete
Way
No Control
Find
Through
Bubble
Had
Part
Picked
Over
Trying
Lived
Found
Now
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
Enrique Iglesias
Creative
Control
Records
Over
Felt
Been
Any
Where
Aspects
Moment
Career
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Eric Alterman
Struggle
Control
Onto
Merely
Democratic
Force
Policy
Foreign
Issue
Foreign Policy
Conduct
Public
Agenda
Requires
Bringing
I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
Eric Bana
Control
Situation
Think
Characters
Uncontrollable
Attracted
Am
Who
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