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  • The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating. -- Martin Amis
  • The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
  • There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves. -- Meg Greenfield
  • I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven. -- Frances McDormand
  • Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. -- Don Aitkin
  • A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. -- Howard Whitley Eves
  • Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good? -- Frederick Lenz
  • I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate. -- Joey Skaggs
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  • I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on. -- Matthew McConaughey
  • Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators. -- Henri Nouwen
  • Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. -- Tom Clancy
  • Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. -- Henry Ford
  • The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it. -- Iggy Pop
  • Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion. -- R. S. Thomas
  • My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years. -- Chaim Potok
  • If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game. -- Harriet B. Braiker
  • By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today. -- G. Edward Griffin
  • Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science -- Richard Dawkins
  • One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history. -- Thomas Merton
  • In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it. -- Konstantin Pobedonostsev
  • I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well. -- Wilbur Smith
  • You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. -- J.R. Ward
  • Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change. -- Kim Harrison
  • If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses. -- Michael Langford
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