Manipulate Quotes

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.