“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative. — Kevin Biegel Copy Share Image
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It doesn't make me feel good to be conniving and manipulative. I can't do that. — Kate Gosselin Copy Share Image
If youre sincere, praise is effective. If youre insincere, its manipulative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We north-easterners are less manipulative and less complex and people living there are much happier than the rest of the country. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin… — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their… — Windy dryden Copy Share Image
The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“The manipulative behavior prompted by these expectations can also be seen in the general nonclinical population. These childish expectations and their consequent… — Manuel J. Smith Copy Share Image
Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I attempted to be clear and straightforward in my approach to Dr Tate, deferring to his medical expertise and stating my desire… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
Manipulative people, who shape your mind into believing whatever they want you to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
