Top 260 Controlled Quotes

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
Ernest Gaines
Because I actually find the next take after they’ve controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that’s still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
Jay Roach
My clients train hard. They don’t scream or throw weights – they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.
John Romaniello
I feel like people often say I am not good at controlled shots or hitting it low, and I feel I’m very good at it, just don’t need to use it as often.
Justin Thomas
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.
Henepola Gunaratana
HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.
Roshni Nadar
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael Mandelbaum
Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what’s happening, it can analyze what’s happening. Of course, most commercial films are controlled by big corporations who have an interest in not doing those films.
Ken Loach
I don’t want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don’t want to be controlled by the U.S.
Muqtada al Sadr
Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He’s very loud and fun. I don’t think there’s anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.
Rose McGowan
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Ian Mcewan
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
Atom Egoyan
As a country, we have confronted and controlled the most common sources of ozone precursors, and our options are few and far between to handle what remains, which is mostly naturally occurring ozone and ozone transported from other countries such as Mexico.
Jim Inhofe
Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.
Leonard Nimoy
Mainstream media can be controlled, right. Because mess

Mainstream media can be controlled, right. Because messaging from mainstream comes from that particular news outlet or whatever. Then you have the top people driving that messaging, and then that’s what it is, right? Social media can really stir up a higher level of panic. If you think about it, it’s not controlled.
Dr. Disrespect
There are some in the establishment who dislike a candidate who thinks for himself and isn’t easily controlled by the Washington establishment. I will be someone who will be taking a firm stand on principle and will not be knuckling under whenever the establishment snaps its fingers.
Kris Kobach
Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
Ann Cotton
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it’s not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Irvine Welsh
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
Nicolas Roeg
Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
Jerry Della Femina
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It’s you against Darwin.
Ryan Reynolds
In the ’50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers – this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the ’60s, going into the ’70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.
Robin Givhan
Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren’t controlled by the controls of your guitar.
Rory Gallagher
I didn’t leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals – mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn’t have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
Jill Scott
Except for teachers, who are ‘controlled’ as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
Medgar Evers
Human beings aren’t supposed to be controlled and told what to do.
Ricky Williams
English writing tends to fall into two categories – the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there’s definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
Zadie Smith
The name ‘The Beach Boys’ is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as ‘The Beach Boys.’ With it, I’ve felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.
Mike Love
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
Peter Mandelson
The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with ‘Dream School’ rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.
David Starkey
I don’t really like being controlled by anyone.
Juergen Teller
One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.
Jim Lehrer
Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I’ve seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
Peter T. King
I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, ‘How am I going to get behind that?’
Toby Jones
We’re controlled more than any other professional sport. We’re told what to wear, when to wear it, what we’re allowed to say in our interviews.
T.J. Dillashaw
We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything’s so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
Vanessa Kirby
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
James D. Watson
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early ’80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.
Ellen Ullman
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
Jello Biafra
I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I’ve gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I’m acting.
William Bratton
I like watching ‘The X Factor,’ but I would never go on it – I think it’s too much of a controlled thing.
Dionne Bromfield
We have controlled the law and order to ensure that the people of Punjab can live and breathe in peace, without fear.
Amarinder Singh
All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government for 20 years, and the New Deal had helped a lot of people. So Republicans turned instead to saying that the Democrats were soft on communism, which was ridiculous.
David Oshinsky
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke
There’s nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you’re just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it’s so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.
Tobin Heath
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We’ve come to believe – from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists – that there’s another side to be heard.
Steven Levitt
I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
Dan Webster
In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don’t have control over that as a cricketer.
Rahul Dravid