Tied Quotes - Page 6

• As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.

  Jason Momoa

  Mean, Water, Special

  "Jason Momoa's First Comments About Starring in 'Aquaman'". www.worstpreviews.com. October 20, 2014.

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  Iain Glen

  Class, Tongue, Faces

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

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• People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Real, People, Mind

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• The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Independent, Writing

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.1235, e-artnow

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• My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

  Nick Cave

  Memories, Soul, Alive

  "20,000 Days on Earth". Documentary, Drama, Music, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the
  others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Choices, Degrees

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  When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mean, Destiny, People

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• I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Grief

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.184, Vintage

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• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  Katherine Catmull

  Artist, Dancer, Bird

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• The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

  Edward Tufte

  Nature, Thinking, Law

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• Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Philosophical, Journey, Men

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• I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

  Homer

  Kings, Soil, Serfs

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer,

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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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• Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Mean, Emotional

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.32, Conari Press

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• Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

  Philip Rieff

  Past, Men, Weight

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

  Denise Chavez

  Dry, Corn, Vat

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• Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

  Laura Mulvey

  Men, Order, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

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• U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

  Cliff Stearns

  Availability, Energy, Prosperity

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• I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

  Ryan Lochte

  Thinking, Rushing, Water

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• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Media, Danger, Produce

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

  Vance Havner

  Order, Alcohol, Church

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

  J. Robbins

  Men, Thinking, Mtv

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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