34 Manipulating Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Love You Eyes Lie People About Someone Poker Perfectly Look Acceptable Just Manipulating Fun

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

Alone Nothing Environment Performing Make Up Cozy Manipulating Warm

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. Brian Eno

Time You World Interesting Manipulating

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet. David Crystal

You Language Internet Brilliant Online How Manipulating Show

When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a virus protection program sold by Kaspersky, a Russian firm. David E. Sanger

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating. Derren Brown

Me Age About Something Charming Manipulating Even Enjoyed Early Early Age

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted. Donna Mills

Think Way Scarlett She Got Just Wanted Manipulating

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

Dreams Great World Language Great Deal Important Busy Those Ourselves Tell Both Outside Outside World Myths Written Miss Hours Know Deal Understand Which Manipulating Communications

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

Me Lie Reading Interview Ghost Though See Some Point Feels Like First-Person Always Singular Text May Autobiographies Manipulating Fascinate Even Lives Published Present

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like. Jack Garratt

Love Music Great You Write Like Genre Because Making Lot Get Any Quite Irrelevant Quite A Lot Manipulating Means

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner. Jon Taffer

Angry You TV Owner Manipulating Actually

I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself. Jonathan Ive

You Yourself Important Think Draw Something Properties Directly Make Learn Understand How Transforming Manipulating Them Working

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

Good Me Genius Picture Beginning Gave Photographer Having More Could Take Develop He Instead Polaroid Talent Click Styling Doing Go Camera Discovered Lab Very Scout Get Modelling Just Manipulating Then Sudden Film

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

Best Big Others Our Minds Arms Arms Race Brains Than Owe Conflicts Interest Race Social Manipulating Engaged Less Among

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize. Melinda Clarke

People Sympathize Sure Audience Making Manipulating

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

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis. Peter Welch

Justice Financial Carefully Financial Crisis Crisis London Rate Throughout Investigate Offered Department Department Of Justice Officials Senior Bank Urge Manipulating Who

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

Time Spent Gifted Would Would-Be Sexuality Piano Lifetime Piano Player Had Instead Most Quarter Front Manipulating Player

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

Political Free Late Enrich Saw Unlimited Markets Relief Promising Silver Small Economic Through Candidates Expense Bankers Manipulating Themselves Farmers

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