Tied Quotes - Page 21

• Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lying, Team, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1972). “Lost Ecstasy”

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• Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Independent, Bigs

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• the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.

  Renata Adler

  Art, Competition, Festivals

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

  Anita Roddick

  Judging, Leader, Lines

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• There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

  Anne Roiphe

  Running, Cat, Divorce

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• Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Holes

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• You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

  Josephine Tey

  Tin Cans, Tails, Denial

  Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

  Olivia Mellan

  Money, Emotional, Self Worth

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• For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

  Betsy Byars

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Swings, Tree, Anxiety

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• The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.

  Vivian Gornick

  Money, Self, Ideas

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• We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Hard Work, Usa

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 7, 2013.

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• You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, Intellectual, Matter

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

  Eva Longoria

  Growing Up, College, Texas

  "Interview: Eva Longoria". www.blackstarnews.com. April 19, 2006.

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• One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Fashion, Art, Film

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• My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Heart, Careers, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
  In least speak most, to my capacity.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Simplicity, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”, p.310

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• In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Zero, Support, Presidential

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• Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Roots, Understanding

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• Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Guitar, Play, Differences

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• Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

  George Jung

  Sorry, People, Agents

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Acting, Convince

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, Acting, Thousand

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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