John Winthrop Quotes

The insurance companies use their economic power to grind down working people..

The consultant is selling something to the candidate. The confidence game is that the candidate is always a little afraid. They’re always a little scared they can lose, and that’s what the consultant exploits. In the words of a consultant, ”There’s nothing better than a scared, rich candidate.”

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

I don't need to show anybody anything other than getting the guy out who is trying to make his money off of me.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

A market is a place set apart for men to deceive and get the better of one another.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

After taking advantage of the weakness, the credulity and the ignorance of the weakest and the most ignorant of the people, those sly, cunning politicians easily had them believe whatever they wanted. Consequently, they made them accept with respect and submission, willingly or not, all the laws they wanted to establish.