#puppet

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#act #again #bill #called #capitol

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#directs #money #motions #puppets #string

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#diet #either #even #fail #feds

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#love #pain #shadow-puppets #love

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#control #even #had #himself #his

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#i #i feel #i feel like #like #obama

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. ↗

— Jim Henson

#had #i #interest #kid #never

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television. ↗

— Jim Henson

#any #form #gave #had #having

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#could #defeated #just #long #muslims

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#direct #got #hand #house #i