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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
Gale Norton
Year
Control
Approaches
Market
Air
Spend
Air Pollution
Hoover
Institute
Pollution
Researching
Stanford
You do hear a lot about 'player power,' but I'm one of those who believes the manager is there to take control, to be in charge.
Gareth Barry
You
Power
Control
Those
Charge
About
Take
Hear
Lot
Manager
Who
Believes
Player
Anything you're not in control of you can't be that comfortable with.
Gareth Barry
You
Control
Comfortable
Anything
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov
Money
Control
Enough
Enough Money
Everything
Recognized
Would
Would-Be
Could
He
Putin
Get
One of the things I say is, 'You cannot control your spouse, but you can influence your spouse.' And one of the ways to influence your spouse is to make sure you are meeting their need for love.
Gary Chapman
Love
You
Control
Meeting
Say
Ways
One Of The Things
Make
Sure
Spouse
Influence
Cannot
Your
Things
Need
When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
Gary Numan
Me
Punk
Seen
First
Before
Control
Bits
Record
Never
Go
Been
Loved
Which
Room
Should
Album
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss
You
Financial
Will
First
Own
Control
Too
Destiny
Be The First
Pick
Step
Road
Over
Execute
First Step
Trades
Selling
Stocks
Often
Short
Gain
Riches
Your
Notion
There are going to be bad things in your life, a lot of ups and downs, but the only thing you can control is your attitude. And if you do that, in the end good things will happen.
Gary Woodland
Life
Attitude
Good
You
Good Things
Ups And Downs
Will
Bad Things
Control
Bad
Only
Lot
End
Going
Ups
The Only Thing
Happen
In The End
Your
Downs
Thing
Things
I can control my attitude, and I can control my game.
Gary Woodland
Attitude
Game
Control
The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
Gary Zukav
You
Law
Cause
Free
Control
On The Contrary
Physical
Entirely
Also
Does
How
Causes
Provided
Effect
Effects
Contrary
Want
Mean
Create
Means
Use
Works
Aware
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies
Me
Marriage
Control
Other
She
Than
Her
The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers.
Geeta Phogat
Family
Women
Problem
Family Planning
Control
Awareness
Birth
Birth Control
Channels
TV
About
Through
Spread
Educate
Itself
Begin
Them
Newspapers
Planning
Population
Need
The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.
Gene Green
Control
Approach
Those
Solution
Firearms
May
Want
Who
In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.
Gene Kranz
Writing
Control
Preparation
Design
Responsibilities
Development
Demanded
Particular
Mission
Procedures
Team
Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
Gene Luen Yang
Art
Myself
Writing
Word
Control
Every
Both
Another
Line
Very
Handle
Artist
Endlessly
Different
Experiences
Story
Full
Tweak
Two
For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
Gene Luen Yang
Me
Control
Every
Thinking
Ways
Eastern
Tension
Between
Boxers
Saints
Western
Very
Personal
Aspect
Needed
In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.
Geoffrey Canada
Work
Women
Parents
Own
Control
Increasingly
Entered
Find
More
High-Quality
Schedule
Adult
Households
Options
Scramble
After-School
Means
Fully
Workplace
Even
Need
Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.
George C. Wolfe
Journey
You
Surrender
Control
Every
Back
Push
Lean
Audience
Go
Crafting
Want
Rhythmic
Breathe
Play
As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
George Cukor
Me
Control
Both
Directors
Ideas
Craft
Movie
Prefer
Pains
Who
Professional
Watch
If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.
George M. Church
You
Change
Control
Kind
Fine
Over
Genome
Inexpensive
Very
Accurate
Get
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Organism
Your
Extending
Fundamentally
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
George Michael
Work
Failure
People
Regret
Control
Control Freak
Freak
Suppose
Terribly
Meticulous
Very
Just
Afraid
Really
Hard
Many
Things
State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.
George P. Bush
Problem
Will
Control
Ownership
State
Reduce
Efforts
Substantially
Flood
Eliminate
Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
George Packer
Matter
Wrong Thing
Control
Definition
Out
Simply
Wrong
Policy
Foreign
Unwise
Doing
Foreign Policy
American
Often
Which
Largely
Thing
I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.
George Saunders
You
Control
Control Freak
Freak
Exactly
Drink
Like
Know
Because
Arrow
Loss
Did
Happened
Which
Straight
Right
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.
George Tenet
Control
Complicity
Direction
Could
Never
Period
Operational
Verify
Iraqi
America
Authority
Any
Against
Act
Al
Al-Qaeda
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
George Will
Ignorance
Disappointment
Events
Political
Control
Politicians
Presidents
Ability
Generally
Voters
Attribute
Perpetual
American
Explain
Helps
Whom
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