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• She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Elbows, Knees

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.249, Penguin

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• Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Needs, Littles

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• Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went in to rescue — why would she do that?” Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlord’s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? “Guess she’s kind of taken with us,” Cuffs said. “You know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didn’t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. It’s...seductive.” He raised an eyebrow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Lying, Believe, Taken

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• I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Artist, Gold, Pelicans

  Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to let him know we've now circled the SUVs. Iraq was about breaking adhesions, getting lean, staying frosty - in short, getting ready for the big Doug MacArthur Memorial Cage Match to come.

  Dennis Miller

  War, Thinking, Korea

  "Eliminating the Axis of Evil". www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2003.

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• Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Real, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.974, First Avenue Editions

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• Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed glasses..Ira had a kid brother who wore high stiff collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls.

  Yip Harburg

  Girl, Brother, Kids

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

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• I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

  Victoria Moran

  Boots, Fabulous, Flip

  "Veg & the City: When Compassion Is in Fashion" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

  Frederick Douglass

  Dream, Dog, Comfort

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.297, Library of America

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• Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

  Michael Pena

  Skills, Someday, Born

  Source: collider.com

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• The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Son, Men

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• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jail, One Day, Crime

  "Body slam" by Paul Gray, www.cnn.com. November 9, 1998.

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• I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

  Davy Crockett

  Party, Hands, Liberty

  Davy Crockett, Richard Penn Smith (1923). “The autobiography of David Crockett”

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• Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

  Andrew Gross

  Crazy, Book, Hero

  Interview with Lisa Gardner, www.amazon.com. 2012.

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• Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hands, Trying, Bed

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• By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Expression

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• Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare. I leaned a little toward Luther. "Is this the part where I faint in fear?" Luther bit his lip. "He might also accept falling to your knees and holding your hands in humble supplication. Makes it easier for him to slap the cuffs on.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fall, Humble, Glasses

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.71, Penguin

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heartless, Muffins, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

  Baroness Orczy

  Looks, States, I Can

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• I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

  Frank Miller

  Sin City, Wire, Razors

  "Sin City". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Buttons

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the locals. The snow crunches under your boots and clings to your trousers, to the cuffs, and once you’re inside, the snow clings to you psyche, and eventually you have to go to the doctor. The past soaks into you in this weather because the present is missing almost entirely.

  Charles Baxter

  Past, Doctors, Sky

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.248, Vintage

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• You can't put cuffs on Mr. Cluck! What will the kids think?" Stuart Bagget

  Janet Evanovich

  Kids, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2014

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• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  Awards, People, Guy

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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