Quotes About Manipulation

I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

Politics runs music more than talent runs music.

The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

No matter how much control you have or how much confidence, it's always in someone else's hands, all the time. That's the scariest thing about this industry. It's so political.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

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 at manipulating others.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

If you take away what a person owns, you control what that person can do.

I mean, the conservative movement in this country has been selling a pack of lies for a long time.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?