To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I don't think any foreign Internet company can effectively compete against Chinese companies in the Chinese market. The regulatory environment is so… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate. — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I figure I just keep working and let the chips fall where they may, and if that means I end up having… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
“You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition.… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it… — Diplo Copy Share Image
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
