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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
I am a person who can never pretend and manipulate - I am what you see me as.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.
Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
I see movies all the time that manipulate you by playing a high note on the piano or some string instrument, and suddenly you're crying. I'm sick of being told what to think.
I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.
I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.
With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.
It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.
Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of changing some genetic traits that will be transmitted over generations.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.
Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.
Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.
Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections, which tend to shift in shape.
You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.
My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.
I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.
We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.
Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.
We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.
There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
