Puppets Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

  Sky Ferreira

  Team, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.

  Wayne White

  Attitude, Worst Person, Giving

  "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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• Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

  Ted Rall

  Running, Country, Hands

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• You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

  Emily Blunt

  Trying, Feels, Rings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

  Langston Hughes

  God, Faith, Christian

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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• Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

  Kid Koala

  Musical, Pits, Orchestra

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• Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Chance, Theory

  "Notes on Music and Opera". Essay by W. H. Auden, published in his book "The Dyer's Hand" (p. 471), 1963.

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• The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Blow, Past

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Outre Mer and Driftwood”

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• If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

  Joseph McCabe

  Real, Drama, Men

  "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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• All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

  David Wong

  Lying, World, Facts

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Strength, Vampire

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• I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sorry, Hands, Needs

  Kelley Armstrong (2007). “No Humans Involved”, p.240, Bantam

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Attachment, Hands, Needs

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

  PJ Harvey

  Hair, People, Tiny

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• I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Blood, Sweat

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• I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, Government, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.16, Best Books on

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• The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

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• To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Reality, Psychics

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.143, Penguin

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• My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you.

  Laini Taylor

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Phones

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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• And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Knowing, People, Descent

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