Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kamala Harris

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

P. Chidambaram

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

Matt Groening

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

Paul Auster

When the publisher here in America wanted to put the word "memoir" on the title page [of 'Winter Journal'] and on the cover, I said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." No genre whatsoever. It's an independent work not really connected to those things at all.

Juno Temple

But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films.

Juno Temple

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

Juno Temple

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent...

Kjell Magne Bondevik

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

Murray Rothbard

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Milton Avery

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

Milton Friedman

I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

Milton Friedman

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

Milton Friedman

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Milton Friedman

There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

Julian Baggini

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Keith Olbermann

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Ken Stott

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

Mary Cassatt

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

Martin Frost

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

Martin Heidegger

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

Noam Chomsky

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Nikki Reed

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice.

Nawal El Saadawi

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

Mitchell Baker

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

Mitch Daniels

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Maria Menounos

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

Marguerite Moreau

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.

Mitt Romney

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

Mitt Romney

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan - Bush . I'm not trying to take us back to Reagan-Bush.

Mitt Romney

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Joseph Pulitzer

Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.