Quotes About Manipulation

Reality TV is anything but.

Reality TV is not real.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

The modern election campaign is created by power in order to convince the realm that all is well, and, further, that its inhabitants are being presented with new information and a clear choice.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

My first relationship was from when I was about 15 to 19. My second relationship was kind of like a rebound, but also a really important part of my journey - he was very emotionally manipulative and just wanted me to be an accessory.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

Manipulating the bond market is so greatly reducing the cost of capital that so far companies have been able to maintain profit margins without raising prices. As a result, we've been exchanging capital cost for commodity costs but you can only do that for so long.

James Reed is inspired, if he is inspired by anyone specific, by P.T. Barnum. He's set up to be the ultimate American showman. His whole job is to sell you shadows. But he's not a nice person, he's not a good guy.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

Even though Cambridge Analytica has dissolved, the capabilities are still there, the platforms are still there, the people are still there. What happens when China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica? Like anything, the second, third, fourth time you do something, you start to refine and perfect it.

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

In the Bigg Boss house a lot of instigation happens.

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

Let them hate so long as they fear.