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• Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

  David R. Brower

  World, Wilderness, Wildness

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• Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

  Timothy Spall

  Imagination, Beast

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• I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Book, Musical, Doe

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• Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hurt, Sky, Bird

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Opposites, Class, Would Be

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• They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

  Robert Burton

  Dog, Business, Ambition

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

  John Huston

  Dream, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars

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• Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

  Arthur J. Lamb

  Beauty, Men, Bird

  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (song) (1900)

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

  Jared Leto

  Kids, Trying, Directors

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• With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Crazy, Animal, Elements

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• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Sex, Lying, Kissing

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• Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

  James Bovard

  Fall, Government, Law

  "Talkin’ to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.

  Diane Kruger

  Fun

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Animal, Leaving

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• You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Bird, Killing

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Sleep, Animal

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• I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

  Robin Williams

  Zoos, Complaining, Gone

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• ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Self, Justice

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• [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Bird, Despair

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

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• The sunlight on the garden
  Hardens and grows cold,
  We cannot cage the minute
  Within its nets of gold

  Louis MacNeice

  Time, Garden, Gold

  'Sunlight on the Garden' (1938)

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• At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

  Donald Trump

  People, Steel, Going Out

  "Trump Holds Town Hall in Herndon, Virginia; Trump Discusses Cyberattacks, National Security". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

  Dana Gould

  Cat, Scary, Labs

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• Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Bird, Empty

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