Words matter. These are the best Manipulative Quotes from famous people such as Jarvis Cocker, Mark Goulston, Elodie Yung, Jeff Lowe, Mazie Hirono, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The thing with Disney songs is they’re very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know – there’s a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn’t really exist any more.
Men such as President Bill Clinton don’t have trouble showing a warmth which works for him, but women in power seem hesitant to use their feminine charm in a man’s world out of concern for appearing lightweight, manipulative, or needing to use it to make up for something that is lacking.
We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil’. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience.
A friend once told me that I was always so manipulative, ‘a silver-tongued devil,’ as he put it. I was never aware of it.
I’ve been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we’re actually on their side.
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.
It is my drawback that I am not manipulative and this trait doesn’t work in the industry. People in the industry are very manipulative. For me, I will say it if I don’t like, and I don’t know how to butter people. Even Salman Khan is like that, he is very straightforward and not manipulative at all.
I’m not naturally manipulative.
I’m not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people’s imaginations.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
It’s ridiculous how the United States practically every week sanctions Cuba and then uses manipulative language to say this is ‘helping’ the Cuban people.
‘Heroine’ is about a declining and imbalanced superstar – a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She’s a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she’s very fragile.
The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people’s consciousness… it’s manipulative and deeply political.
This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We’re telling the story of ‘Daredevil.’ In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn’t seem to have a conscience.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone’s own interests, which creates cynicism.
It isn’t those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it’s those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely.
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.
Lisa Vanderpump is a manipulative person and when I was on the show I did a lot of her dirty work for her.
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
As we become more codependent with technology, it’s not necessarily based on our desire for the technology but our desire for interconnectivity and wanting to stay connected, which is a natural human instinct. The technology itself is kind of emotionally manipulative.
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned – something that’s not a big hassle.
My problem is I cannot be manipulative and diplomatic. And to survive on a show like BB,’ you have to be very smart. I cannot put so much pressure on my mind. It will be a mental pressure on me.
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
I am not a manipulative person.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
I don’t want to throw mud at anyone – I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist – but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
I’ve seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn’t stink. But if you’re empty and manipulative on stage, it’s clear.
I’ve been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
It doesn’t make me feel good to be conniving and manipulative. I can’t do that.
My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn’t get past how manipulative it made me feel.
