There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our…

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

— Randal Marlin

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not…

— John Boorman

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

— John Cena

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted…

— Dean Koontz

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

— Paulo Coelho

“Dr. Stern’s explanation of how to identify this kind of covert emotional control and abuse, and how to resist it, is a very important…

— Robin Stern

I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

— Nyla Ali Khan

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people…

— Mark Leibovich

Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of,…

— Deb Caletti

Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having…

— John Perry

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public…

— Woody Allen

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or…

— Anne Lamott

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck