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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Looks, Clown, Fine

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• Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

  James Bobin

  Simple, Joy, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children as they're growing up, so that they become their own police, and to report on others who are deviating.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Growing Up, Children, Army

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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Strings, Reporters

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• And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

  Stanley Milgram

  Firsts, Steps, Awareness

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

  Leo Booth

  Art, Waiting, Strings

  Leo Booth (1991). “When God becomes a drug: breaking the chains of religious addiction & abuse”, J P Tarcher

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

  Jim Henson

  Kids, Saws, Interest

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• The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Whole, Deep Down

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.36, Tuttle Publishing

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• Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

  Michael Buckley

  Giving

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.266, Abrams

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• [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Destiny, Strings, Sardonic

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• I hate puppets so much. I dream about puppets all night. I see strings on people. The nice thing is we can just take a puppet and put it in front of a wall and blow the shit out of it.

  Trey Parker

  Hate, I Hate

  "Q&A withTrey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Doug Cantor, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

  Sam Harris

  Views, Long, Littles

  YouTube Chanel "Freytrue"/ "Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House", www.youtube.com. January 13, 2013.

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• It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Children, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2238, Bantam

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• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Science, Perception

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• I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

  Donny Osmond

  Life, Men, Thinking

  "Big brother" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2001.

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• Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Long, May

  Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, Hands

  Charles de Lint (2007). “Spirits in the Wires”, p.73, Macmillan

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Childhood

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Unique, Differences

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• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

  Walt Disney

  Cartoon, Littles, Firsts

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• History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Driven, Behinds

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

  Wayne White

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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