#puppet

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#any #country #go #i #i am

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#away #breath #caught #country #democratic

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#being #force #forces #longer #manipulated

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#college #competitions #festivals #florida #great

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#directs #money #motions #puppets #string

Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#desires #intend #life #live #puppet

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

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. ↗

— William Jackson

#cartoon #characteristics #characters #eccentric #home

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#because #being #bores #drive #else