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The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. -- Vsevolod Meyerhold
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on. -- Jodie Foster
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. -- Nigel Farage
Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life. -- Rob McClure
Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is. -- Wayne White
We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough." -- Brian Henson
And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up." -- Brian Henson
I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. -- Jonathan Davis
Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet. -- Nydia Velazquez
The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. -- Dave Matthews
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. -- Rainn Wilson
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy. -- Alex Pareene
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other. -- Nina Conti
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet. -- Hedy Lamarr
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet. -- Sean Parker
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. -- Jim Henson
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things. -- Walt Disney
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet. -- Katherine Jenkins
I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. -- Wesley Snipes
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. -- Oriana Fallaci
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet. -- Dennis Rodman
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man! -- Donny Osmond
You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters. -- Annie Lennox
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder. -- Hank Johnson
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice. -- Seth Green
If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities. -- Jim Henson
The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. -- Dave Matthews
I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. -- Kevin Bacon
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet. -- Madeleine Albright
You [Hillary Clinton] are the puppet! -- Hillary Clinton
A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet. -- Demetri Martin
Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies. -- Michael Buckley
Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. -- Sam Harris
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside. -- Emile M. Cioran
If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string -- Benny Bellamacina
I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires. -- Evan Sutter
It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun... ladies. -- Demetri Martin
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. -- Alan Moore
He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States. -- Hillary Clinton
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. -- Kid Koala
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. -- Peter Camejo
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. -- Charles de Lint
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave. -- Jimmy Cliff
I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state. -- Ron Paul
I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do. -- Sky Ferreira
Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you. -- Patton Oswalt
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still -- Emily Dickinson
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world. -- Arthur Darvill
I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet. -- Guy Davenport
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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long. -- Holly Black
There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are. -- Alamvusha
So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding? -- Sergio Martinez
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet. -- Sean Parker
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. -- Alan Watts
Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran. -- Marco Rubio
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. -- Bertrand Russell
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet. -- Lu Xun
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. -- Bob Balaban
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage. -- John Larroquette
I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv. -- Brian Henson
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. -- Bashar al-Assad
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. -- Carl Sandburg
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings. -- Sam Harris
But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects. -- Brian Henson
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. -- Sam Harris
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- -- Langston Hughes
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string -- Aaron Tippin
The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother. -- Elinor Smith
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. -- R. Scott Bakker
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason. -- Daniel Handler
The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both! -- Bill Hicks
People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things -- Walt Disney
You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career. -- Gillian Jacobs
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. -- Gwen Stefani
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster? -- Barry Lyga
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
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. -- Thomas Frank
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. -- Marcus Aurelius
As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience. -- Fede Alvarez
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe. -- Rob McClure
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it. -- Tig Notaro
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight. -- Michelle Rodriguez
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet. -- Maya Banks
We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why? -- Mel Gibson
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. -- Emile M. Cioran
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. -- Ted Rall
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera. -- Brian Henson
Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also. -- Wayne White
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government. -- Pietro Badoglio
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it. -- Matt Stone
You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true. -- Emily Blunt
The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master. -- Eric Andre
I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals. -- Robert Lopez
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Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made. -- Ed Sheeran
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock. -- Julia Roberts
In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show. -- Maxim Knight
As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life! -- Christopher Paul Curtis
My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet. --
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him. -- Larry Holmes
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends. -- Ludwig von Mises
Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.' -- Jason Segel
What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ... -- Charles Stross
Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she's a competent politician, which means she seldom says anything in less than three paragraphs. So people like the guy who just goes, "Nuh-uh, no puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet." -- Joss Whedon

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