Manipulating Quotes
102 quotes by 96 authors
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing…
— Gary Hamel
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I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates…
— Keith Haring
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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
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Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
— Penn Jillette
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the…
— Penelope Lively
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Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great…
— Donald Trump
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I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
— Salman Rushdie
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary,…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.
— Steve Kluger
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Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Come work for me, and I’ll tell you.†My eyes went to his. “You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man, 
— Kim Harrison
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don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into…
— Tom Wolfe
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Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . .†A chuckle drifted up to me. “Pillow talk already? You’ll have me hard before we’re even back in…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your…
— Kristin Cashore
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I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.
— Sharon Stone
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Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live…
— Edmund Clowney
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People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system,…
— Emmanuel Jal
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In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap…
— Arthur Potts Dawson
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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…
— Mark Pagel
Who Wrote These Manipulating Quotes
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