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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. -- Morley Safer
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. -- Charles Grodin
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
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
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'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
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative. -- David Nicholls
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
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. -- Suzanne Collins
Tactics are manipulative. -- Shiv Khera
I'm not naturally manipulative. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art. -- D. Elton Trueblood
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful. -- Neil LaBute
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. -- Donald Miller
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. -- J. J. Abrams
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. -- Joyce Meyer
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle. -- Bjork
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win. -- Jonathan Haidt
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page. -- Jay Carr
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was. -- Jeanette Winterson
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often. -- Anne Lamott
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
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely. -- Glenn Greenwald
The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more. -- Jarvis Cocker
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
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow. -- Anurag Kashyap
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative. -- Henri Nouwen
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not. -- Joyce Meyer
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs. -- Joe Swanberg
Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest. -- NeNe Leakes
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction. -- Caroline Myss
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail. -- Stanley Hauerwas
You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave. -- Robert Greene
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far. -- Jonathan Coleman
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices. -- Richard Bach
We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater. -- Anne Lamott
Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin. -- Wade Barrett
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. -- Zig Ziglar
It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow. -- Lena Headey
To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative. -- Kevin Biegel
I eat haughty, arrogant, manipulative, self-important bitches like you for breakfast, sugar. And then I go back for seconds. -- Jennifer Estep
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. -- Martin Lindstrom
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. -- Wendy Starland
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. -- Christy Turlington
I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain. -- Michel Gondry
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal. -- Russell Brand
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. -- D. B. Sweeney
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny. -- Louis C. K.
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element. -- George Saunders
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass. -- Mike Tyson
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 never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway. -- Leonardo DiCaprio

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