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You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
Michael Cera
Good
You
Try
Control
Pretty
Good Stories
Pick
Stories
Much
Actor
We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.
Michael Connelly
Control
Seeking
Order
Control is what gives you privacy.
Michael Douglas
You
Privacy
Control
Gives
One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
Michael Gove
Control
One Thing
Able
Support
Undeniable
Continue
Going
Migration
Thing
Need
Numbers
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
Michael Gove
Class
School
Control
Colleague
Know
Affects
Interest
Themselves
Teachers
Who
Whole
Keep
Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.
Michael Gove
Democracy
Vote
People
Will
Control
Believe
Back
Take
Leave
Optimists
Us
Who
Britain
What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.
Michael Gove
Money
Control
Every
Give
More
Fact
Week
Over
Hand
Than
Union
European
European Union
Million
Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.
Michael Greger
Cancer
Control
Considered
Promising
Physical
Physical Activity
Only
Preventive
Tends
Weight
Because
Exercise
Against
Breast Cancer
Lower
Measure
Helps
Activity
Levels
Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.
Michael Hastings
History
Few
Control
Military
Obama
Fact
Never
Remote
Aerial
Offensive
In Fact
Many
Ever
Largest
Amount
Program
The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.
Michael Hayden
Problem
Country
Control
Ours
Weapons
Ability
Like
The Problem With
Them
Cyber
Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.
Michael Ignatieff
Power
Control
Air
Destroying
Ability
Rarely
Relying
Like
Forces
Limits
Command
Effective
Itself
Targets
Fixed
Storage
Regime
Against
Succeeds
Planes
Then
Strategic
Bridges
Even
Petroleum
The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control.
Michael Ignatieff
War
Democracy
Law
Power
Edge
Control
September
Secret
Morality
Both
Puts
Since
Mostly
Because
Exercise
Terror
Waged
Itself
Against
Capable
Themselves
Strain
Means
Using
Shown
Keeping
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
Michael J. Fox
Life
Time
Free
My Life
Long
Control
Gone
Worrying
Say
Out
Would
Vanity
About
Long Gone
Shaky
Feel
Like
Look
Because
Hands
Really
Now
Waste
Why
Second
You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
Michael Johnson
You
Competition
Control
Other
Athlete
Except
Execute
How
Task
Going
Anything
Race
Your
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky.
Michael Leunig
Life
Nature
Humanity
Water
Control
Sweet
Human Nature
Down
Waters
Takes
Existence
Human
Lukewarm
Murky
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Michael Mandelbaum
Politics
World
Economics
Few
Control
Other
Considerable
Rule
States
Out
Cases
Directly
Indirectly
Exceptions
Empires
Does
Always
Prove
American
Done
Influence
Turn
Certainly
Special
United
United States
Societies
Save
The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.
Michael Moore
Problems
Will
Gun
Gun Control
Go Away
Control
Believe
Think
Liberals
About
Laws
More
No Question
Well
Reduced
Go
Question
Left
Yes
Going
Just
Away
I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
Michael Moriarty
Government
You
Rights
Control
Think
Television
About
Host
Open
Government Control
Questions
Door
Then
Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.
Michael Moss
Home
School
Economics
Control
Kids
How
Shop
Scratch
Taught
Diets
Anymore
Happen
Cook
Used
As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.
Michael P. Anderson
Life
Dreams
You
Control
Back
Way
Right Way
Someone
Allow
True
Come
Know
Look
Make
Just
Different
Happened
Your
Your Dreams
Different Things
Right
Million
Things
I can't think, 'Ah, that team should call me up.' The only thing I can do is stay in shape and wait. You can only control what you can control.
Michael Sam
Me
You
Wait
Control
Think
Stay
Only
Shape
Call
Up
The Only Thing
Should
Team
Thing
In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.
Michael Schoeffling
Work
Best
You
Control
Circumstances
Given
Least
Film
Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.
Michael Schumacher
Dangerous
Car
Will
Tough
Power
Control
AIDS
Those
Out
Find
Relying
Horse
Foot
Arm
Come
Devoid
Exercise
Without
Just
Experiencing
Sensitivity
Formula
Formula One
Turn
Who
Electronic
Muscles
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
Michael Shermer
Best
Blindly
Control
Our
Moral
Follow
Instead
Concede
How
Provided
Authorities
Behave
Just
Communities
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.
Michael Specter
Food
People
Few
Control
Organic
Monsanto
Way
Say
Hormones
People Say
Seeds
Object
Seem
Tainted
Most
Antibiotics
Often
Famous
Want
Mean
Prefer
Them
Organic Food
Shot
Full
Companies
Meat
Pesticides
Many
Grow
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.
Michael Specter
Control
Live
Evidence
Bite
Those
Criteria
Rash
Prevention
Highly
Tick
Diagnosis
Infection
Laboratory
Disease
Common
Established
Where
Acknowledged
Centers
Region
Who
Appearance
Specific
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