“My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.” WorldGivingHas BeensRealStatesGoalChanceIndependentSecureFirmUkraine Author:Yulia Tymoshenko
“To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.” Would BeTermChanceCommonIndependent Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.” DifferentRealFilmOpportunityChanceEffortTeamIndependentScriptsBudgetsIndependent FilmTeam Effort Author:Will Ferrell
“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.” IdeasProblemSocialChanceSpaceBrainEconomyCenturyBehaviorRootsUltimateIndependentPhilosopherDeterminedPhysicsObjectivesContemporaryUncertaintyChemicalsTime And SpaceUnthinkableGenomeIdeation Author:Mario Bunge
“The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.” GivingFilmBitsChanceMediaSeasonsIndependentPressesAwardsLongevityIndependent Film Author:Danny Boyle
“The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.” KnowsLittlesFilmChanceKnownIndependentCarefulStudiosGenreExcitementStayingFilmmakingTake A ChanceIndependent Filmmaking Author:Malin Akerman
“Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.” WellsDoeForceChanceCreationBehaviorIncreaseIndependentIndependenceSakeFinancialGuidesArtisticSyndromesFinancial IndependenceMimicryArtistic Creation Author:Fady Joudah
“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.” BelieveChancePaperIndependentPapersBlairAmbivalent Author:Alastair Campbell
“The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment.” StillsImportantWould BeFightingChanceDemocracyMissingIndependentImportant ThingsInvestmentBillionsJournalismGiantsGatesPhilanthropyEmergingInstitute Author:Bill Moyers
“When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.” BelieveSchoolDifficultChanceMomIndependentFeministMy MomIrrelevantCinematography Author:Babette Mangolte
“The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.” ThinkingKindFilmUniverseChanceAudienceComedyDramaIndependentSophisticated Author:Matthew Weiner
“Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.” WorldArtFilmArtistChanceAudienceArt IsIndependent Author:Alex Cox
“Today, 90% of terrorist activity on the Internet takes place using social networking tools, be it independent bulletin boards. The most important terrorist communiques and videos are virtually all initially released on certain password-protected chat forums run by Al-Qaida supporters. These forums act as a virtual firewall to help safeguard the identities of those who participate, and they offer subscribers a chance to make direct contact with terrorist representatives, to ask questions, and even to contribute and help out the cyber jihad.” ImportantHelpingRunningTodayChanceIdentityInternetDirectIndependentTerroristSupporterSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkJihad Author:Evan Kohlmann
“We like the ambiance and atmosphere, and we felt really early that... I mean, of course, Air is an electronic band, but we are doing so many real recordings and the studio is so important for the sound. The acoustics create atmosphere and emotion. Also we want to be independent, we don't want to be obliged to go into a commercial studio and only stay one week because it's really expensive. We want to be able to give a chance to a song, and to spend a lot of time in the studio.” GivingMeanImportantRealSongChanceEmotionWeekIndependentAtmosphere Author:Jean-Benoit Dunckel
“The Peña Nieto government is not going to investigate itself; there's no true autonomy in the investigative and justice branches of the government in Mexico. The recent Mexican crimes and scandals, is profoundly structural, and you'd have to change the way Mexico is run, create a truly independent special prosecutor's office, to even have a chance to get close to achieving justice. People, including the families and many others throughout Mexican society, aren't going to give up in fighting for just that kind of change.” PeopleGivingKindRunningFightingJusticeChanceAchieveSpecialCrimeOfficeGiving UpIndependentAutonomyMexican Author:Francisco Goldman
“Every story has a point of view and whether it's by what one chooses to include or exclude from a story or whether it's a very specific agenda that is pushed, there is no such thing as objective media. Once you realize that it's more than just a marketplace of ideas, it's a battleground of ideas that are suppressed and the ideas that are pushed forward in the mainstream media are the ones that independent media has a chance to address. I think that the democratization of media in that way can be very helpful in allowing the truth to come out in a way that it might not on CNN or FOX.” ThinkingRealizingChanceIndependentPoint Of ViewHelpful Author:Tom Morello
“I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.” TryingBelieveLittlesFilmI BelieveStuffChanceStepsSceneIndependentRight ThingReincarnationTake A ChanceDoing The Right ThingIndependent FilmIndependent Women Author:Patrick Warburton
“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.” IfsWorldMindHeartStatesChanceKnowingEvidenceIndependentDespiteOptimisticHopefulState Of MindPersistentKeep The FaithBeing Optimistic Author:William Sloane Coffin
“You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.” PeopleWorldMayMatterHardWholeHomeAbleChanceStudySmartIndependentNo Matter WhatWhole LifeStealingRelyBeing SmartSlimDowryRely On Yourself Book:Falling leaves return to their roots Source: Falling leaves return to their roots
“Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.” WantGivingYearsFirstsHomeJobsNextHouseChanceAnswersFireDangerWillingCostShotsIndependentAgreeClimate ChangeOur FamilyReportsShopsWarningEngineersElectricalAssessmentEvaluationWiring Author:Steven Chu
“Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.” MenWorldLooksPoliticalChoicesGivenChanceMoralNovelStrugglePathRightsModernHe ManExpressionRevolutionEnlightenmentPhilosophicalIndependentCivil RightsLinksDeniedDaringAutonomyAstonishingPublicationLivelyProvocativeFrench RevolutionNew Look Author:Natalie Zemon Davis