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A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature.
She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way,
and works within whatever system she is in.
- Anita Brookner

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative.
It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
- Morley Safer

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale,
because I like these characters.
They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative,
they're dangerous.
- Brian De Palma

I mean you really can target your answers to get the
instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling.
I really have no time for that worm at all.
- Jim Bolger

It did not feel like something that was going to take
over my life and destroy it.
It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon.
That's the mystery of heroin.
- Corey Feldman

I'm very manipulative towards directors.
My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film,
we're all receiving art messages from the universe
on how we should do the film.
- Jeff Bridges

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending,
it's very difficult because it's been done before and
you don't want to be manipulative.
- Tim Robbins

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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative,
to be hateful and deceitful.
- Neil LaBute

I've been trying to take this journey over the last
four years of getting away from playing manipulative
and villainous characters and playing characters that
are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
- Kevin Spacey

You think intercourse is a private act;
it's not,
it's a social act.
Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative.
When two individuals come together and leave their
gender outside the bedroom door,
then they make love.
- Andrea Dworkin

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't
use it in any positive way or manipulative way.
I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love,
that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
- Diane Kruger

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.
- Bridget Moynahan

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators,
to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
- Joey Skaggs

The level of ignorance is declining,
and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it
for various ends is increasing.
- Bruce Sterling

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies,
when they just so cynically manipulate the audience
without even trying to give a good story.
- Gene Siskel

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls;
we can't start and stop ice ages,
and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
- Jared Diamond

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process.
They're looking for people they can manipulate.
Both sides are.
- Joseph Wambaugh

Well, I love having kids.
But I have the advantage of having a lot of help,
a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.
- Jane Kaczmarek

We live in a world of things, and our only connection
with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
- Erich Fromm

I tried to manipulate and control people,
and I harbored resentment.
I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
- Lauryn Hill

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future.
They are both just illusions that can manipulate you
into thinking theres some kind of change.
- Bob Dylan

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience.
We made our choice at the start.
- Stephen Hopkins

The difference between the student and the born composer
is he really hears the thing,
and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
- Leo Ornstein

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of
inspiration all around him,
and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions
now with ease compared to what it used to be.
- Joe Grant

Terrorism is a psychological warfare.
Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear,
uncertainty, and division in society.
- Patrick J. Kennedy

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
- Neville Marriner

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate.
I think there are some politicians with higher goals.
But all of them get corrupted by power.
- Dean Koontz

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
- Dario Argento

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion,
and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some
people use religion to manipulate other people.
- Peter Jennings

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's
best for everyone else because it is the most effective
way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
- Tammy Bruce

I've never tried to manipulate my image.
- Alan Alda

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade,
not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
- Bo Bennett

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside -
try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
- Randy Harrison

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track
on the ground and manipulate a hand.
You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
- Bill Budge

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate
media to talk about the issues that we care about.
- Justin Sane

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists
on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
- Christopher Lasch

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and
if we're not in there participating then the people
that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
- George Takei

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate
both enemies and supporters.
- Raymond Aron

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion,
both positively for a work and negatively against the competition.
I don't do this and can't stomach it,
honestly.
- R. A. Salvatore

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer...
a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools;
and we can then paint,
manipulate, process, change, and further develop the
image within the computer,
watching our progress on the monitor.
- Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not
doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow.
She loves him.
She does it out of love.
She wants him so badly to stay with her.
- Salma Hayek

When it comes to controlling human beings,
there is no better instrument than lies.
Because you see, humans live by beliefs.
And beliefs can be manipulated.
The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
- Michael Ende

One would expect that private property taken by eminent
domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads.
Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for
government to manipulate the definition of public use
simply to generate greater tax revenue.
- Jim Ryun

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious -
they spend millions of dollars researching colors,
shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences,
and they can make you feel warm, trusting,
like buying.
They can manipulate you.
- Richard Hatch

Politicians, no matter who they are,
shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single
issue and then call an election at the height of support -
that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
- Jim Bolger

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history,
their literary history, their movie literacy,
their culture, their language, their religion,
whatever they've got.
I can't possibly manipulate all of that,
nor do I want to.
- David Cronenberg

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see
all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental,
that they were pandering to the audience and trying
to manipulate the audience.
I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
- Richard Foreman

Madonna is a pro.
I don't like her and have no respect for her but-
I don't think she should be called a musician or a
dancer or whatever you know,
but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability
to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
- Jon Fishman

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people
would manipulate that information.
I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were
experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas.
So there is no security question.
It can't possibly be the reason.
- Dwight Schultz

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies,
and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man,
even though both sciences yield technologies with a
vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
- Pope Paul VI

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law.
A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail,
a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes,
a smart reporter could ruin your reputation-
unfairly.
- Mario Cuomo

It's so easy to manipulate an audience,
but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated.
I think even people that are not critically attuned
are aware of cynical manipulation in film.
- John Boorman

And then there's all these other creeps that surround
your band and suck off you like leeches and try to
manipulate you and your business.
You have to watch like a hawk.
I'm always ready to fight.
I see it very much as a battle.
- Shirley Manson

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and
attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter,
because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate,
stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold,
hard cash.
- Maggie Gallagher

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy,
have never stopped being a nation of laws,
not of men.
But witness how men with motives and a majority can
manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
- Robert Byrd

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp,
quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it,
get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
- Sunny Murray

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years.
But some things don't change.
Kids and parents have disagreements,
kids try to manipulate,
parents try to sit down with rules and regs.
That part never changes.
- Paula Danziger

We have to improve life, not just for those who have
the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system.
But also for and with those who often have so much
to give but never get the opportunity.
- Dorothy Height

He knows that you have ability and what he does is
he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
- Daniel Craig

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them
speak and see how music manipulates them.
- Lisa Bonet

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
- Marla Maples

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words,
which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
- John Langdon

It's really important to remember that most people
in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of
things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.
- Geri Halliwell

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
- Karl Marx

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer
manipulated by what other people want you to do and be,
but are directed by your own inner desires.
- H. Stanley Judd

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces:
we become the powerful force ourselves.
- Leo Buscaglia

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation
and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect
the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
- Jay Inslee

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is,
it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
- Jena Malone

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
- Serge Schmemann

And I sense it was a rather constructed,
almost half narrative fiction film in some ways.
A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those
things in there that I knew to be strong.
- Terry Zwigoff

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