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When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.
Nick Hornby
Work
People
Reading
Before
Control
Duty
TV
Percent
Feels
Come
Like
Remote
Reach
Most
Read
Because
Go
Off
Get
Them
Then
Fun
Sleep
One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
Nick Mason
Mistakes
Control
Same Thing
Back
Some
Something
Point
Tends
Look
Same
Your
Thing
Career
You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.
Nick Nolte
Life
You
Control
Bit
Point
Come
Get
Where
Your
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
Nick Saban
Own
Control
Our
Destiny
Know
Terms
Well
Play
I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
Nick Saban
Great
You
Challenges
Opportunity
Own
Control
Respected
Destiny
Seem
Great Opportunity
Could
Terms
Learn
How
Were
Lot
Different
Little
Your
Team
Enjoyed
Things
Bring
Players
Decentralized consensus technology will reach the mainstream when products are built that both empower consumers to take control of their own data and also offer users great UXs.
Nick Tomaino
Great
Technology
Will
Own
Control
Data
Both
Take
Consumers
Mainstream
Reach
Also
Empower
Built
Offer
Decentralized
Products
Users
Consensus
When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.
Nick Woodman
Love
Me
Sports
Big
Control
Think
Out
About
Part
Picking
Dropping
Stuff
Also
Surfing
Led
Up
Big Part
Planes
Then
Really
Team
Radio
Team Sports
Now
I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.
Nicki Minaj
Me
Man
Control
Seeing
Allow
Never
Like
Vowed
Because
Around
Any
Children
Want
Anything
Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.
Nicola Sturgeon
Politics
Government
People
Country
Become
Before
Control
Our
Way
Ourselves
Has-Been
About
Never
Put
Firmly
Over
Involved
Known
Been
Scotland
Short
Informed
I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.
Nicole Holofcener
Money
Big
Control
Say
Okay
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Able
Give
Something
Compromise
Push
Studio
Between
Like
Make
Sure
Lot
Up
Maybe
Order
Want
Movie
In-Between
Little
Low-Budget
Shove
Film
Even though Japan and Germany were not formal allies at the time that Japan conquered Shanghai in 1937, still, Frenchtown was an area that Japan could take complete control of - and they did. And it was the locus of nightlife.
Nicole Mones
Time
Control
Complete
Though
Area
Allies
Could
Shanghai
Take
Still
Were
Germany
Did
Formal
Japan
Even
Conquered
Nightlife
Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.
Niels Bohr
Time
Character
Humanity
Competition
Will
Control
Unless
Dangers
Unprecedented
Taken
Powerful
Disastrous
Due
Materials
Establish
Formidable
Confronted
Use
Manufacture
Measures
International
There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've got to get back control of our country.
Nigel Farage
Change
Country
Big
Control
Back
Our
More
Got
Big Change
Left
Get
Any
Irrelevant
Right
Need
The referendum was clear: the British people voted to leave the single market and to take back control of our borders.
Nigel Farage
People
Single
Control
British People
Back
Market
Our
Borders
Take
Clear
Voted
Leave
Referendum
British
Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.
Nigel Farage
Simple
Fire
Country
Whatever
Control
Our
Threats
Only
Remain
Proposition
Most
Answer
Coming
Leaving
Continue
May
Cannot
Us
Union
European
European Union
Basic
Numbers
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
Nigel Mansell
You
Complicated
Try
Car
Example
Style
Control
Too
Spin
Driving
For Example
Firstly
Tires
Which
Means
Your
Hard
Damage
Careful
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
Niger Innis
Gun
Gun Control
Fears
Long
Before
Control
Sense
Promoted
Concept
Unequal
Common
Common Sense
While
Ethnic
Means
Whites
Measures
Keep
Position
Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'
Niki Lauda
World
Whatever
Control
Believe
Changes
Definition
Launch
Gear
See
Takes
Firmly
Around
Pinnacle
Automatic
Formula
Formula One
Should
Keep
Millions
I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.
Niki Lauda
Art
Day
Past
Control
Starts
Changes
Everything
Gear
Delicate
Fact
Remains
Stuck
Driver
Like
Retrospective
Sound
Person
Hands
Managing
Want
In The Past
Race
Clutch
Engine
Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.
Nina Easton
Government
Control
Deficit
Spent
Joblessness
More
Consumption
Tens
Long-Term
Economically
Insurance
Revenues
Dollars
Unemployment
Contributing
Fewer
Taxpayers
Means
Billions
I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and I love when I can help others take control of that.
Nina Garcia
Love
Advice
Style
Control
Help Others
Others
Way
Says
Ourselves
Dress
About
Take
Always
Am
Stopped
Being
Much
Help
You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.
Nipsey Hussle
You
Before
Control
Too
John
John Coltrane
Charlie
Charlie Parker
More
Voice
Parker
Coltrane
Instruments
Sound
Listen
Confident
Artists
Different
After
Them
Found
I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.
Noah Baumbach
Death
People
Comedy
Control
Say
Laugh
Laughing
Would
Find
Some
Studio
Suppose
Executive
Very
Same
Different
Places
Movies
Different Places
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
Noah Taylor
Art
Me
You
Control
About
Over
Any
Really
Your
Desires
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam Chomsky
You
People
Management
Control
Elsewhere
Kind
Administrative
More
Economic
Layer
True
Force
Industry
Does
Domination
Than
Same
After
Useful
Even
Waste
Universities
It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that's why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction.
Noelle Stevenson
Life
You
Yourself
Strong
Power
Own
Control
Think
Teen
Changing
Teens
Everything
Draw
Characters
Easy
Write
Outside
Feel
Over
Feels
Like
Lot
Celebrities
Any
Fiction
Fan
Form
Fictional
Themselves
Really
Body
Your
Your Body
Why
Fast
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