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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Lou Reed

Coffee, Blood, Evil

Song: The Blue Mask

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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong, Memories, Imagination

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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

Funny, Time, Humor

"The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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I don't think of myself as being tied.

William Shatner

Thinking

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Steven Spielberg

Character, Hands, Color

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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Anne Lamott

Jobs, Real, Track

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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

Jessica Lange

Children, Home, Who I Am

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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

T. E. Lawrence

Tin Cans, Tails, News

April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

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Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

Tim Berners-Lee

Data, Needs, Problem

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In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Haruki Murakami

Thinking, Japan, Circles

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Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

Bill O'Reilly

Light, Yellow, Cameras

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

Country, Political, Democracy

George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Jeremy Rifkin

School, Scientist, Mainstream

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In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Robert Redford

Moving, Hands, Back When

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We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

Reality, Destiny, Way

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

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

J. Michael Straczynski

Smart, Kids, Rope

"Wonder Woman's New Era". Interview with Richard George, www.ign.com. June 29, 2010.

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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Bear Bryant

Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Mason Cooley

Faults, Virtue

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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

David Duchovny

Sexy, Fashion, Men

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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

George Herbert

Love, Heart, Be Kind

George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.170

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September 11 had such a strong visual component, the most visually documented event in human history. Nothing's ever been seen by as many people as that was. Our experiences of the day, our memories of the day are just so tied up in images of buildings falling and bodies falling.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Strong, Memories, Fall

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

Moving On, Believe, Quality

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Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

Team, Mean, Metrics

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