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“All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.”

“There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.”

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Author:Edward Said

“If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.”

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Author:Victor LaValle

“I probably live in the best province for independent filmmakers. Manitoba has a sort of thieving-magpie approach, trying to lift productions from other provinces as well as from other countries. It makes it very hard for me to leave.”

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Author:Guy Maddin

“The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.”

Firsts Kind Might Wanted Jobs Fashion Independent Reactions

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“We are hopefully seeking some kind of distribution - but that's the ultimate goal of any independent film-maker. We are sold-out, from what I was told yesterday. We're going to try to put together another screening because I know there's a lot Jersey Boys fans that are coming. I don't know when, why or how, but we definitely want the opportunity for everyone to see this.”

“There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.”

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Author:Ehud Olmert

“The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.”

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Author:Benjamin Clementine

“Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.”

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Author:Tim Hetherington

“I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And bad in a worse way, too. They're just parodies of themselves sometimes.”

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Author:Kyle Parker

“The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.”

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Author:David Edelstein

“It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.”

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Author:Doseone

“Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.”

“I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.”

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Author:Kylie Minogue

“I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.”

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Author:Taye Diggs

“The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.”

“I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.”

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Author:Joe Budden

“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.”

“I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.”

Politician Independent

Author:Robin Leach

“What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.”

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Author:Ledisi

“There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.”

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Author:Carwyn Jones

“With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.”

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Author:Ryan Montgomery

“Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Because GMOs aren't labeled, it's very hard to prove causality in terms of health effects. It's even more difficult because the seeds are patented, so independent researchers have a hard time gaining access to them.”

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Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.”

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Author:David Cameron

“I prefer Independent music, in which we have control to our music.”

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Author:Yukmouth

“Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.”

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Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.”

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Author:Nia Long

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.”

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Author:Arlen Specter

“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“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.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy

“The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.”

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Author:Sam Brownback

“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.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.”

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Author:Gail Sheehy

“We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.”

“Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.”

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Author:Josh Tickell

“As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.”

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Author:Bethenny Frankel

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