#manipulating

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bank #carefully #crisis #department #financial

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#detached #disturbing #got #head #i

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#career #fortunately #good #haven #i

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#i #making #manipulating #people #sure

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted. ↗

— Donna Mills

#hara #just #manipulating #scarlett #she

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

#american public #cia #committee #concern #covert

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time. ↗

— Brian Eno

#manipulating #time #world #you

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. ↗

— Keith Haring

#celebrates #encourages #further #go #humanity