Calling The Shots Quotes:

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.63, Macmillan

topic: Calling The Shots, Calling, Shots

I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

- Robert Reich

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Wall, Party, Calling The Shots, Big Corporations, Vicious Cycles

Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's a lot of stipulations and constraints placed on you. What makes it worse is that, in terms of distributing budgets, labels aren't even giving the same amount as they used to. It totally defeats the purpose. My advice would be to get it out there on your own first which will lead you to calling the shots.

- Ashanti

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Ties, Giving, Advice, Calling The Shots, Stipulations

I think that overall, ultimately the impact of advertisers calling the shots is a more cloying, complacent culture. For example, it was just announced that Unilever is branding environmental content at The Guardian. How radical or pointed can that content be?

- Astra Taylor

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Thinking, Impact, Environmental, Calling The Shots, Advertisers

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.

- William Colby

topic: Latin, Believe, Government, Calling The Shots, Drug Cartels

Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn't be at the front shouting about it. He'd be the one you don't expect.

- Jonas Armstrong

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hero, Hands, Robins, Calling The Shots, Hands On Hips

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

- Bob Goff

topic: Calling, Absence, Shots, Calling The Shots

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

- Bryan Fischer

topic: Running, Marine, Army, Calling The Shots

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Hero, Believe, Acting, Supporting Roles, Calling The Shots

It's America calling the shots in everything

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: America, Calling, Shots, Calling The Shots

Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipartisan foreign policy elite who've been calling the shots for the last few decades and they're clearly still in control regardless of how clownish or absurd they demonstrate themselves to be. There's no shaking their orthodoxy. To me it was the most depressing thing, these full-scale military interventions firsthand for a number of years, seeing how quickly we can get involved in another war with very little debate.

- Michael Hastings

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Depressing, Military, War, Calling The Shots, Most Depressing

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.

- Michael J. Fox

topic: Drinking, Destiny, Hands, Lack Of Control, Calling The Shots