Independent Quotes

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

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

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

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

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

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.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

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

Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

I believe that every people and every nation has the right to be free and independent.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

First, say to yourself, 'I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.' Second: 'I'm beneath no one.' Third: 'I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges.'

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.