Be Independent Quotes

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

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

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

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.

My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.

I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

I'm about to go to Sundance for my 3rd year, and Sundance has never felt like a real independent festival at all. On the other hand, it might to start feel that way.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

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.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

My experience and what I do in snowboarding is really quite independent of the industry and the more independent it is, the more pure and better I feel about snowboarding.

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

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.

And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

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