#manipulate

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#how #i #la #manipulates #music

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#event #every #happen #just #manipulate

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#be strong #constructed #fiction #film #get

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#captures #different #different ways #it is what it is #manipulate

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. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#american #aspect #believe #country #events

I've never tried to manipulate my image. ↗

— Alan Alda

#image #manipulate #never #tried

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#consume #how #know #live #manipulate