Manipulated Quotes

(on the administration of President George Bush and its invasion of Iraq) "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that (this) administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that`s reprehensible. I don`t think, like many of us, that the reasons we have been given for going to war are the honest reasons. If they are saying it`s about the fact they have biological weapons and might have nuclear weapons and that gives us the liberty to pre-empt and strike because we think they might hit us, then what prevents Pakistan from attacking India, what prevents India from attacking Pakistan, what prevents us from going into North Korea? I believe--though I may wrong because I am no expert--that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."

To get up in front of a camera of course you have to have a certain amount of vanity. All acting is narcissism in some way. Would I be a narcissistic person? Absolutely. Am I vain? Absolutely. Any actor who sits down in front of you and tells you they`re not vain its bullshit. I`m sure a lot of actors are like `Oh no, I`m not vain I just look fabulous everyday`. Now they`d like to believe that themselves. Its all very carefully manipulated, and I`ve met and worked with some of the most beautiful actors in the world and then you see them on a cover of a magazine they don`t look like that, any of them, they just don`t.

"I was a very shy person and, I suppose, easily manipulated. Of course, it`s flattering to feel someone desperately wants you, but looking back, it`s quite uncomfortable to realise that you were the object of desire. That`s quite a passive thing to be."

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that`s reprehensible.

It`s really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it`s very easily manipulated.

I fought to keep the integrity of the story (The Elizabeth Taylor Story) because the producer was bringing in a writer that was making it very soapy. They wanted many scenes of her when she was very overweight. I said, `I`m not doing that. I`ll do one. That`s not this woman`s life.` For me it was just: I didn`t want to make an impression. I just tried to play the truth of the woman. Not the legend, not the stories that we hear about her. Because even when she was a child, you were seeing a version of her that was manipulated by the studios, so you didn`t really see her. I thought the closest she ever came to revealing herself was Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), and she lost herself in that role. It was cathartic for her to do that in a lot of ways, to let herself be that wild - on portraying actress Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) (TV)

An actor is a puppet, manipulated by a dozen other people. Auto racing has dignity. But you need the same absolute concentration. You have to reach inside yourself and bring forth a lot of broken glass.

In a way, when you talk so much about something, it does not belong to you any more. It`s happened to me and my bad memories. I`ve manipulated them and now they could be parts of Gone with the Wind (1939).

When I read Last Tango In Paris, I didn`t see anything that worried me. I was 20. I didn`t want to be a star, much less a scandalous actress - simply to be in cinema. Later, I realized I`d been completely manipulated by Bertolucci and Brando.

It`s so easy to manipulate an audience, but it`s nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

He has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favorable light, principally in relation to his attitude towards and responsibility for the treatment of the Jews, ... The charges which I have found substantially true include the charges that Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated history evidence.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Three thousand children start to smoke every day. One thousand of them will die because of it, ... In the end, it`s how we view this product. Teens smoke because they are rebelling ˆ they don`t want to be manipulated. But what`s happening?

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Afterwards I was looking into it, and they do say that stronger or more successful women often get picked on and manipulated - it`s very odd.

We`re going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is going to know how the tobacco industry manipulated kids, manipulated nicotine and manipulated public policy. Congress and the Department of Justice are going to know the pervasiveness of the fraud,

Gambro manipulated the system to receive improper Medicaid payments, and this scheme cost taxpayers across the country millions of dollars,

Historically, propaganda has always merged with recruitment because people must first be conditioned to become soldiers and fight strangers in distant lands. It`s not a natural condition but must be manipulated to get people to join unpopular realities.

Enron had a brief window to salvage itself (last) fall and we missed that opportunity because of Mr. Lay`s failure to recognize or accept that the company had manipulated its financial statements,

Enron had a brief window to salvage itself (last) fall and we missed that opportunity because of Mr. Lay`s failure to recognize or accept that the company had manipulated its financial statements.