Manipulative Quotes

• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

  Brian De Palma

  Sexy, Fun, Character

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• Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

  Shoma Morita

  Pain, Emotional, Self

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• Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Humility

  Caroline Myss (2007). “Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Fear, Fresh Start, Emotion

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

  Neil LaBute

  Hype, Deceit, Hateful

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• If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positivity, Accomplishment

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• A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, People, Use

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• You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Thinking, Doors

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• Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Stories, Safe

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

  Tim Robbins

  Trying, Done, Want

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• I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, Receiving, Directors

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• Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

  Morley Safer

  Reality, Popular Song, Culture

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• When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Struggle, Fall, Commitment

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• Her beauty didn’t do her any good and she couldn’t use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

  Diane Kruger

  Believe, People, Looks

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Breathing, Growth, Green

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Two, Doors, Making Love

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• To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

  Murray Bookchin

  Warrior, Growth, Warfare

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Stories, Boring Life

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

  Charles Grodin

  Opposites, Care, Smoothies

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• Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Sex, Women

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• A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, People, Contentment

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah."

  Laura Prepon

  Girl, New York, Beer

  Source: collider.com

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• Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

  Bruce Campbell

  Wind, Appreciate, Attention

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• I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.

  Richard Hell

  Hate, Thinking, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting
  your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a
  warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Mean

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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