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Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable. -- Cheryl Hines
Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at -- Madonna Ciccone
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. -- Conrad Hall
Manipulating is just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Everyone is manipulating. -- Herve Falciani
Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency. -- Jamie Dimon
I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for. -- Isla Fisher
Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down. -- Lauren Barnholdt
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. -- Teller
For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. -- Brian Eno
Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted. -- Donna Mills
Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects. -- David Perlmutter
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me. -- Penn Jillette
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves. -- Matthew Weiner
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. -- Raoul Vaneigem
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them. -- Sigourney Weaver
A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing. -- Walter Kirn
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. -- Keith Haring
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. -- Penelope Lively
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. -- Noam Chomsky
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. -- David Cronenberg
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. -- Mira Nair
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. -- Ralph Fiennes
Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver. -- Robert Dallek
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. -- Frank Church
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. -- Gary Kemp
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. -- Erich Fromm
I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous. -- Rian Johnson
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. -- Gary Hamel
I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective. -- Dario Argento
Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete. -- Donald Trump
No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want. -- Nick Cave
At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it. -- Maripol
Animation is manipulating the difference. -- Norman McLaren
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation -- S. I. Hayakawa
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. -- Adyashanti
I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize. -- Melinda Clarke
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating. -- Martin Amis
In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality. -- George Soros
I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself. -- Sharon Stone
I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating. -- Steve Earle
Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them. -- Tim Kaine
Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way. -- Laozi
Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth. -- George Soros
Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you. -- Kevin Leman
I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to. -- Elaine Paige
You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain. -- Jared Harris
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you. -- John Smith
Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you. -- Steve Kluger
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness -- Alan Moore
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer. -- Peter Norvig
The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others. -- Kaskade
There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing. -- Jamie Dimon
Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension. -- Avey Tare
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. -- Jeffrey Veen
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. -- Linda Ellerbee
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. -- Stephen Hawking
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. -- Charlie Munger
By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other. -- Terence McKenna
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
With Rudy [ Giuliani], [Donald Trump] will - the minute they push him too far and start manipulating, he will - he will lash out. -- Chuck Todd
Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something... -- Zach Braff
What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention. -- Bruce Mau
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it. -- Ian Bogost
Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . ." A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room... -- Jeaniene Frost
In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good. -- Randal Marlin
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them. -- Ricky Gervais
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you. -- Angel Olsen
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. -- Mark Pagel
don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door. -- Tom Wolfe
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime, -- Ricky Martin
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime. -- Ricky Martin
I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you. -- Kristin Cashore
I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you." -- Kristin Cashore
Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings. -- Larry Kirshbaum
I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them. -- Fred Wilson

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