Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anurag Kashyap

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

Bruce Lee

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

Edwidge Danticat

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.

Edmund Burke

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

Edmund Burke

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Edward Norton

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Edward Abbey

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Atom Egoyan

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

Aubrey Plaza

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

Deepak Chopra

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

David Nicholls

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

Adlai Stevenson

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Bernie Sanders

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

Bernie Sanders

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Bernie Sanders

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

Stephen Jay Gould

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

Stephen Jay Gould

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.

Stephen Jay Gould

If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?

Creed Bratton

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

Colin Powell

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

Claire McCaskill

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

Dan Howell

You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.

Dan Glickman

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

Damian Lewis

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Dylan Moran

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

Adelaide Clemens

I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

Adam Sedgwick

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

Adam Cole

I've known Kyle O'Reilly since 2009. Me and him actually met each other when we had our very first match against each other for Gabe Sapolsyky's DragonGate USA show. Me and Kyle went in there and we had a match that kind of made waves throughout the independent scene as far as us getting our names out there. We both got signed to Ring of Honor at the exact same time.

Abraham Lincoln

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

Ani Difranco

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

Alison Moyet

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

Ann Kirkpatrick

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

Ann Macbeth

We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.