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Manipulated, one manipulates others. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. -- Serge Schmemann
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. -- Karl Marx
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. -- Leo Buscaglia
The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring. -- James Blunt
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. -- John Langdon
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo! -- Annie Leibovitz
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment. -- Nick Cave
Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad. -- Zooey Deschanel
Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose. -- Javier Bardem
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
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. -- Ron Paul
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. -- Rem Koolhaas
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
In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. -- Peter Abrahams
Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again. -- Anthony Weiner
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. -- John Coleman
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged. -- Gary Zukav
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price. -- James Surowiecki
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way. -- Tavi Gevinson
Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side. -- Bat for Lashes
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. -- Pope Francis
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited. -- Matt Groening
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda. -- Lauryn Hill
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. -- Martin Scorsese
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products. -- Beth Ditto
Man can be scientifically manipulated. -- Bertrand Russell
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated. -- Benjamin Carson
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few. -- Aldous Huxley
Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated -- Cynthia Leive
There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men. -- Pablo Escobar
There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated. -- Don Henley
I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances. -- Jack Nicholson
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. -- Diane Setterfield
With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated. -- Stacia Kane
Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated. -- Robert Redford
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. -- Noam Chomsky
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization. -- Erich Fromm
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. -- Gore Vidal
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. -- William Randolph Hearst
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. -- Han Fei
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. -- Joseph Goebbels
Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. -- Javier Bardem
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use. -- Beeban Kidron
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. -- Erich Fromm
Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity. -- Virginia Woolf
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. -- Steve Martin
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads. -- Carl Jung
I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together. -- Janeane Garofalo
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. -- Ian MacKaye
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered. -- Joey Skaggs
I can tell if I'm being lied to or manipulated a little better than most. It's definitely an advantage for me. -- Troian Bellisario
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. -- Jena Malone
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. -- Chris Hardwick
When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see. -- Frederick Lenz
Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates -- Robert Ludlum
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. -- Keira Knightley
This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. -- Stanley Fish
No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated? -- Neal Boortz
And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But thisThis is always true. -- Michael Scott
For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do. -- LaToya Jackson
I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman. -- Kellie Thacker
At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program. -- James Blake
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to. -- John Krasinski
I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them. -- Jack Nicholson
I don't like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You'd do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You're going to snivel at me? (Xypher) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else. -- Wayne Dyer
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve. -- Charles Lindbergh
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
Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story. -- Megan Fox
Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless. -- B. F. Skinner
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. -- Michael Ende
Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work. -- Madonna Ciccone
Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind. -- Gregory Maguire
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it. -- Sakshi Tanwar
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement. -- Helen Lawrenson
Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake. -- Robert Dean
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down. -- Dick Cheney
A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. -- R. Alan Woods
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression. -- Emma Goldman
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. -- Herbert Schiller
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself. -- Carl Rogers
We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler. -- Nick Morgan
I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things. -- Gerald Stern
[Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs. -- Charles Schumer
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now. -- Vera Farmiga
When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true -- Michael Scott
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property. -- Harold Laski
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have. -- Theodor Adorno
Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite conspirators working together in the Northern and the Southern states. -- Eustace Mullins
Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff. -- Kool Keith
Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it. -- Paul Bloom
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue. -- Erich Fromm
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
I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared, scared that [Vladimir] Putin manipulated us, worried about Rex Tillerson, the winner of Russia's order of friendship as the secretary of state. -- E. J. Dionne
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above. -- Gloria Steinem
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively. -- Tony Kushner
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism. -- Tyler Cowen
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible, -- Dustin Hoffman
I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated. -- Kathleen Hanna
When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style. -- James T. Webb
It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done. -- Roger Ebert
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. -- Andy Grundberg
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities. -- George Gerbner

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