Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Wojcicki

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Amy Goodman

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David Attenborough

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

David Steel

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

Anthony Mackie

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

Andrew Jackson

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Sydney J. Harris

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Thomas Jefferson

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

Swami Vivekananda

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Ron Paul

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

Steven Soderbergh

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

Tom Selleck

Im a registered independent with a lot of libertarian leanings,

Tommy Franks

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

Tom Green

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.

Tom Green

It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

Toby Jones

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Tim Ferriss

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

Samuel Adams

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

Stephen Breyer

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Thomas Pynchon

All variables are independent.

Tim Berners-Lee

I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.

Thomas Kretschmann

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

Thomas Jefferson

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Thomas Friedman

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Thomas Friedman

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

Thomas Bulfinch

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

Vin Diesel

I've directed independent film.

Viggo Mortensen

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Victoria Abril

I really wanted to work and become independent.

Victor Papanek

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

Tariq Ramadan

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

Taylor Swift

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.