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Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Beauty Body Control Entitlement Impulses Lose Love Mastery Needs Over Paramount Risk Self-Esteem Sexuality Size

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I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

~Caroline Paul

Topics: Better Control Grow Humans Learn Never Our Real Real Relationship Relationship Relationships Think Want You I Think

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I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

~Caroline Paul

Topics: Animals Anybody Because Cat Control Could Girlfriend Humans Just Know Like Love Our Peace Really Things Think I Think

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Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.

~Caroline Wozniacki

Topics: Back Control Difficulty Even Get Good Hits Just Opponent Point Shot Then Very Want I Can

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The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.

~Carolyn Jones

Topics: About Acting Any Bent Better Control Could Field International Kind Language Like Make Mind More Much Only Other Pays Practical Producer Tenth Theater Too Want Why You

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Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

~Carre Otis

Topics: Anorexia Arena Bartender Because Before Being Control Demands Disease Going Got Like Me Modeling Out Really

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There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: About Continue Control Kind More Next Next Step Opinions Over Page Process Realize Screen Screenplays Scripts Step Time Translation Want Where Work Write You

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I think the public perception about asteroids is that they're kind of metaphors for acts of God, the fact that we have no control over the universe. They're always seen as these uncontrollable events. But when you look at the science, they're actually the exact opposite.

~Carrie Nugent

Topics: About Acts Actually Always Control Events Exact Exact Opposite Fact God Kind Look Metaphors No Control Opposite Over Perception Public Science Seen Think Uncontrollable Universe You I Think

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It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

~Carrie Snow

Topics: Any Appalling Control Desirable Doing Fact Guide Hopes Imagine In Fact Keep Life More Only Our Own Rational Social Social Life Technology Than Use Which

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My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

~Carrie Underwood

Topics: Always Been Chick Control Grew Had Inner Listening Lot Music Radio Rock Rock Music Sisters Teenagers Through Up Were While Who Young

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