Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

Ryan Hurst

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.

Ryan Hurst

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

William Whewell

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

Wayne Dyer

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Robert E. Sherwood

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

Rod Serling

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

Rod Serling

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

Robin Leach

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Roseanne Barr

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

Zachary Knighton

I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this day and age with social media and Facebook, Twitter, it's really impossible to escape people that you've been involved with. In a weird way, it makes it easier for everyone to stay friends because you're just sort of stuck there.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Walter Kirn

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Robert Glasper

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old,

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Rufus Sewell

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Rowan Atkinson

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Jamil Moledina

We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible.

Marsha Samitt

There is an awards committee that makes the decision on winners, and we look at the community in general for winners, not just members of the Chamber of Commerce.

Ryan Hall

The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.

Brian Jones

I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.

Noam Chomsky

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

Jodi Picoult

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Kirk Douglas

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

Mary Hart

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.