Tied Quotes - Page 16

• Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

  Jessica Valenti

  Character, Mean, Self Worth

  "She Who Dies With the Most 'Likes' Wins?" by Jessica Valenti, www.thenation.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Average, Years

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• If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

  Seth Godin

  Kids, Ideas, Way

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.53, Penguin

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• I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

  Bob Parsons

  Communication, Years, Next

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• Even genius is tied to profit.

  Pindar

  Money, Genius, Profit

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

  Matt Groening

  Cat, Moon, Thinking

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• My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Prayer, Boys

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

  Patrice Pavis

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

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• The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

  Shakti Gawain

  Keys, Prosperity, States

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.7, New World Library

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• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Modern Life, Liquid, Circumstances

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• It's funny, because Arrested Development is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called Quintuplets for a season for Fox, and this was while Arrested Development was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  Andy Richter

  Different, Development, Way

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. March 29, 2003.

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• I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

  Annie Baker

  Tongue, Terrible, Consumed

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• We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, Thinking, Care

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• Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, People, Film

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• I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Running, Dc Comics, Casts

  "Q&A – Thor’s Jaimie Alexander on Marvel Spoilers, Her Geeky Roots, and Wonder Woman’s Breasts". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com. May 2011.

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Forever the rebel with a cause, Gonzalez exits left at City Hall / Idealist energized young liberals in strong run for mayor" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2005.

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• We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

  Edward T. Hall

  Long, Culture, Lives Of Others

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• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  Edward T. Hall

  Voice, Culture, Movement

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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Australia, Tails

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Country, Heart, Years

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

  Christie Hefner

  Economy, Playboy, Tied Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not tied to any particular political line.

  John Hewson

  Political, Lines, Particular

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

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• I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

  John Hickenlooper

  Issues, Environmental, Energy

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