“Play small ball. Get back to basics. I would say that you need to be a conservative, but you need to maintain your independent streak.” NeedsPlayBallsIndependentConservativeGet BackBasicsStreaksBack To Basics Author:Andrea Tantaros
“One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition toward our side - but this economist did a study. He said under [Donald] Trump's economic plans, we would lose in America 3 and a half million jobs.” KnowsSaidJobsAmericaSidesLosesHalfMillionsStudyPlansEconomicTrumpIndependentExpertsEconomistMccain Author:Hillary Clinton
“We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.” MenNeedsChildrenSufferingTeachIndependentIncomeTortureEmpoweringEmpowering Women Author:Waris Dirie
“I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."” LooksPersonsKidsLife IsGamesLevelsBrotherSkillsIndependentVideoZeroLimbsYour BrotherIndependent Person Author:Julie Bowen
“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.” WorldImportantHelpingValuesNationsUnderstandingDifferencesQualityClearSecurityHappeningsEvidenceImportanceArmyIndependentElectionChinaCoreProceduresQuality Of LifeTransparencyJudicialCore ValuesJudicial System Author:Ai Weiwei
“I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.” WantGrowsGrowing UpIndependentActresses Author:Pom Klementieff
“[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?” MenHomeSpiritLandTrumpIndependentBraveFollowingLand Of The Free Author:Mike Pence
“Let the Black man go - stop lying to us that you love us. And if you really love us, let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation.” IfsMenGivingLyingNationsBlackLandIndependentDollarsBillionsTerritoryTractorsStop Lying Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.” QuietIndependentShoppingQuiet Time Author:Carmen Electra
“Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.” RunningFilmInterestingIndependentGood ThingsScriptsIndependent Film Author:William H. Macy
“If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.” IfsLittlesFilmChoicesMillionsHugePaidIndependentFortuneBudgetsHanging OutTrailersIndependent Film Author:William H. Macy
“I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsPersonsMadeTwoSometimesDoneHappensFilmPassionCommonDirectorsGiving UpFirst TimeIndependentScreensHookNever Giving UpIndependent FilmGet It DoneCommon DenominatorCrooksBacking Down Author:William H. Macy
“You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but if you're going to shoot a film - an independent movie on film, the only way to really do it is to print your selects.” IfsWayFilmIndependentPrintFilmmaking Author:Logan Lerman
“Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.” Has BeensEnoughFactsCertainValuesClassRolesToo MuchMiddleKingsIndependentIndependenceAcceptedResistanceRecognitionExplanationMiddle ClassLuther Author:Ella Baker
“I felt that I'm a real important part when it comes to hip-hop, but maybe not so much in the industry, so I felt that I was better of in an independent situation... where I have some control over my life and there's no middle man and it's basically me and my team handling my situation.” MenImportantRealFeltSituationTeamMiddleIndustryIndependentHip HopHipsHops Author:Styles P
“In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesDecisionCapableStrongerIndependentUnconventional Author:Emily Giffin
“When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.” WayFilmDesireCreativeDoorsNew YorkTelevisionTvsHappeningsIndependentSurpriseArtisticIndependent Film Author:Aja Naomi King
“The movie studios, they only like to make - I make a joke, but it's true - if the movie has the word "man" and a number in the title, they'll make it. If it doesn't have that, it's an R-rated raunchy comedy, and that's it. Any other movie that you're going to make is going to be an independent one. So for filmmakers who want to do something other than "man" and a number, it's either independent films or television, which is like the place for real creative filmmakers to go.” IfsMenWantRealFilmNumbersCreativeComedyTelevisionJokesIndependentStudiosTitlesFilmmakerIndependent Film Author:Rob Reiner
“Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.” SelfYoungTerribleIndependentPreparationFearfulYoung WomenSpiritedSelf Absorbed Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.” BelieveLongCountryTermPolicyPerspectiveCitizensCapableDignityIndependentReputationLong TermForeign Policy Author:Vladimir Putin
“Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.” ShouldBodyGovernmentInterestRecordsDecidedIndependentSerbiaKosovoCentral Government Author:Vladimir Putin
“If Britain pursues a more independent foreign policy, it might be possible then. And if it is guided by commitments to its allies and considers this to be of a bigger national interest than its cooperation with Russia, so be it.” IfsMightInterestPolicyCommitmentBiggerIndependentRussiaPursueBritainAlliesCooperationForeign PolicyNational Interests Author:Vladimir Putin
“Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.” TrumpRepublicanIndependent Author:Jesse Ventura
“In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.” ArtBusinessInformationSourceCriticismIndependentCriticsAdvertising Author:Pauline Kael
“A man is not a financial plan.” MenPlansIndependentFinancialIndependent Women Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“Priestly stewardship suggests that creation is not just for us, that it has purpose independent of the uses we can make of it. All of creation-human and nonhuman alike-exists ultimately for God and to the praise of God.” HumansUsePurposeCreationPraiseIndependentEnvironmentalStewardship Author:Rodney Clapp
“No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.” RealityEventsTheoryIndependentQuantumCompatibleQuantum Theory Author:John Stewart Bell
“I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.” OrderIndependentSalesman Author:Jacques Barzun
“It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.” StruggleIndependentFinancialFamiliarDesigner Author:Thomas S. Tait
“I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansStillsCharacterAbleWantedFilmBlackHuman BeingsDecisionStruggleEnvironmentFocusLandIndependentConnectedBlack PeopleUrbanAssociatesIndependent FilmAll BlackUrban Environment Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.” SaidStatesRememberExistenceAcceptingRightsMilitaryIndependentSakeIsraelPalestinianIsraeliMilitary IntelligenceIntelligence Services Author:Yasser Arafat
“We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza.” SaidStatesMomentsReadyIndependentLiberatedGaza Author:Yasser Arafat
“I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.” YearsDoneWholeWantedGuyForeverHairSkinsIndependentSevenWhole LifeBrownShedExtensionsSeven YearsLife And Change Author:Jillian Hervey
“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.” IfsThinkingWayYoungFashionRight NowIndependentDesignerFashion DesignerThink Twice Author:Rick Owens
“I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that you'll hear throughout the episodes and the season in the show. I write all my music, I'm an independent artist so we do it all in-house and that song embodies exactly what the title says.” WritingShowsArtistSongHouseSeasonsIndependentAlbumsThese DaysTitlesEpisodes Author:Mike Stud
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson
“You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been in Washington, D.C., too long, because he used to really understand independent politics and why we cannot have a viable political system unless we have independent political parties. Otherwise we just keep marching to the right.” ThinkingKnowsLongPoliticalUsedPartyPlayerTeamIndependentPolitical PartiesPolitical SystemsTeam Player Author:Jill Stein
“Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.” WayProcessMoralFindingsIndependentProceduresDeliberationDeciding What To Do Author:Allen W. Wood
“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.” NeedsMatterReasonMightActionDecisionAttitudePrinciplesConditionsTheoryOughtOffersJudgmentIndependentObjectivesRelatedJustifyMetaphysicalProceduresTrackingObjective Truth Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.” ThinkingUseMightDecisionClearOughtIndependentProceduresMight Use Author:Allen W. Wood
“That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.” DoeValuesTheoryOriginalsIndependentDerivativesHegel Author:Allen W. Wood
“I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.” TodayInterestPolicyJudgmentConcernIndiaBasesRegardIndependentRemainsStatementsEnlightenedRelevantForeign PolicySoleNational Interests Author:Manmohan Singh
“I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.” ThinkingKnowsMayDifferentEndsDoneCharacterStoriesLightFilmActorsOpportunityNumbersMaterialsIndependentIndependent Film Author:Alison Brie
“Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.” IfsSaidJobsLosesClassMillionsPlansMiddleEffectsTrumpTaxesIndependentBlowDebtInstanceExpertsMiddle ClassWealthyDisadvantagesRecessionsMiddle Class Family Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Independent experts] have looked at my plans and they've said, OK, if we can do this, and I intend to get it done, we will have 10 million more new jobs, because we will be making investments where we can grow the economy.” IfsSaidDoneJobsGrowsCan DoMillionsEconomyPlansIndependentInvestmentExpertsNew JobGet It Done Author:Hillary Clinton
“I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.” BelieveI BelieveAnswersMoralOughtPeriodsIndependentGenuineOur Thoughts Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.” ThinkingTryingKindTwoDifferentReasonUseNextPresidentChallengesGroupsSecurityInformationIndependentStealingMaking MoneyDifferent KindsWarfareAdversariesHackingCyberCyber SecurityCyber Warfare Author:Hillary Clinton
“As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.” BigsPresidentAuthorityToughBiggerIndependentEnforcementAcquisitionMergersScrutinizeMergers And Acquisitions Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.” WorldWayFactsHappeningsIndependentCorporationsStringsDisruptionCombiningOperatorsBuckminster FullerStrings AttachedNo Strings Attached Author:Jonathon Keats
“It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.” PeopleCharacterStoriesBigsCareTogetherFilmSituationUniqueIndependentIngredientsLove MakingIndependent FilmBlockbuster Author:Andy Serkis