“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKidsWantedRememberFilmMemoriesSeeingColorIndependentNineWizardsSpectrumNine Years Author:Mila Kunis
“I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.” ThinkingMadeFilmLevelsTvsIndependentBudgetsContemplatingIndependent Film Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“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.” ThinkingImportantPerspectiveCreatingIndependentNarrativeLgbtLanes Author:Cakes da killa
“An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.” IfsThinkingMightIndependentReportersEditorials Author:Gene Weingarten
“Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside people look at you and think of what you could be doing better. Those are voluntary, but most of the companies told me they're going to do it. And I think it's good for them to say our returns on equity, for example, should be higher. Also, I think some could be more ambitious.” PeopleThinkingShouldLooksTwoCompanyExampleReturnHigherDirectorsIndependentFocusedAmbitiousEquity Author:Jamie Dimon
“At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples' opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.” ThinkingWayLittlesLongBookIdeasSelfStoriesOrderOpinionAchieveAchievementIndependentOpeningDefinedAffectedApprovalLong WayArcsLonerIvySelf SufficiencySufficiencyLong Way To GoApproval Of Others Author:Liza Campbell
“I'm going to make a guess, not a definitive statement, I would think if you had to make a decision like that [ completed the e-mail investigation on Hillary Clinton], you'd give it - you'd give that to an independent counsel. You wouldn't make it as the appointee of the new president.” IfsThinkingGivingPresidentDecisionIndependentClintonStatementsMailInvestigation Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Here was just not a lot that we could do as an Independent. We could barely make $100,000. It was nothing' else livin' on the independent scene, and I think we needed to get on the TV and be seen. We need to work really hard this time.” ThinkingNeedsHardTvsNeededSceneIndependent Author:Lil Boosie
“I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.” ThinkingKindFatherInfluenceConditionsDirectIndependentIndividualismThis SocietyMistreatment Author:Ai Weiwei
“There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in England. To all of these things there are plenty of barriers, in the culture and in the social and political institutions, the concentration of economic power. But these are not insuperable barriers, I think. They can be overcome. And it is urgent that this be done, because there are really incredible problems that are simply not being addressed.” ThinkingWayImportantDoneProblemMightPoliticalCultureForceSocialPartyEconomicLaborOvercomingEnglandIndependentInstitutionsIncrediblesPlentyConcentrationBarriersUrgentEconomic PowerPolitical Institutions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think the thing that I got most from working with Frank Zappa is that I was able to see someone who completely independent. The most beautiful thing about Frank was that he was completely in the moment and present and eternally creative.” ThinkingMomentsAbleBeautifulCreativeIndependentFrankBeautiful ThingsZappa Author:Steve Vai
“I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.” ThinkingFirstsStatesGovernmentStrongUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceModelsConstitutionIndependentIncludingSeparationExecutivesStableVolumeDefenceLegislatureJudiciaryIndirectMassachusettsMadisonConstitution Of The United StatesSeparation Of PowersIndependent Judiciary Author:Gordon S. Wood
“India is an independent country, we have our own policies and future. We have to think about the future of our 125 crore people. There should be no compromise on our interests. We have relations with America in the context of these fundamental points.” PeopleThinkingShouldCountryAmericaInterestPolicyIndiaRelationIndependentFundamentalsCompromiseNo CompromiseIndependent Country Author:Narendra Modi
“The left are afraid of independent thinkers. They are afraid of people who are able to reason and think on their own.” PeopleThinkingReasonAbleLeftIndependentThinker Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.” ThinkingLooksHomeFeltGoalCommunityTaughtIndependentFree ThinkingOld Saying Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.” ThinkingWellsStatesReasonWholeGovernmentMightWould BeForceSocialUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulClearEconomicDevelopmentIndependentSouthBeing SuccessfulInternalsRegionsVietnamBrutalDocumentsEconomic DevelopmentTakeovers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.” ThinkingTryingLooksKindAmericaLeftReligiousIndependentPaintAtheistComplicatedBelieverSecularPortraitsVersusLensesComprehensiveCritiqueBinaryEither Or Author:Ross Douthat
“Henry David Thoreau is very independent-minded, very iconoclastic, and had quite a corrosive sense of humor. I think that I probably have grown up to have a Thoreauvian perspective on many things. Though in other ways I live a life he would not have approved of. He believed to simplify, simplify, simplify. Make your life very clear and plain and meditative and not confused. Sometimes my life, in fact, is confused.” ThinkingWaySometimesFactsClearPerspectiveIndependentConfusedSense Of HumorSimplifyApprovedDavid Thoreau Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I like to see the positive. I went to Madrid when I was 18 and did a TV show there. Really, my first job was in Madrid and I was on my own. I think it teaches you how to be independent and survive on your own and not really need anyone, although I definitely needed help in Madrid. It was kind of a disaster. I ended up living with nuns, but that's a whole other story.” ThinkingKindHelpingTeachIndependentDisasterNun Author:Ana Mulvoy-Ten
“People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common threads. We struggle with the same things. We desire love and attachment. We have to sort out how much we want to be attached and be independent, how we manage need and being needed and being hurt. These are things that begin when we're - how old? Then in those teen years we start to really feel them.” PeopleThinkingMindDesireHurtCommonStruggleIndependentManageBeing Hurt Author:Deb Caletti
“I think my best advice would be to separate Donald Trump, the president of the United States from whatever investigation is being conducted by the FBI. I mean, there is something to be said, frankly, about the need for the appointment of an independent prosecutor because the American people are entitled to have a full review of what happened as a result of what the Russians did during our election.” PeopleThinkingMeanPresidentAdviceIndependentElectionFbiBest AdviceProsecutor Author:Leon Panetta
“I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingAgeSufferingCultureDignityShameIndependentInvisibleEnjoymentSenior Author:Leeza Gibbons
“Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are also making a lot of money and accumulating a lot of our data at the same time, which seemed like independent things and one is beneficial and one is problematic for us as individuals, but in the rush of the new I think a lot of the philosophical, ethical, moral, and legal questions don't get asked in time. It's not in our nature to pause, sit, meditate, question, debate. We move forward. Technology generally answers itself with more technology.” ThinkingMindMovingIndividualMoralTechnologyInnovationPhilosophicalIndependentCancerDebateMoving ForwardEthicalOuter Space Author:James Ponsoldt
“You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, a fine film, very interesting, but as for studio pictures, that's it, what else? There was more only a few years ago. So it changes, and I'm trying as much as I can.” ThinkingTryingFilmInterestingIndependentExceptionVery InterestingSocial Network Author:Peter Weir
“When you are on a major record label, you're just forced to think big. You are forced to think about things like "how many radio spins did we get this week?" or "how many albums did we sell across the country. Being independent, you are just focused on the city that you are playing in tonight. How many people can I meet and become friends with tonight. That's one of the great things about being an independent artist.” PeopleThinkingCountryArtistWeekIndependentFocusedGreat ThingsThink Big Author:Graham Colton
“Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent. It's something that is objective, regardless of how you feel. So, the term gender identity seems to me to be something of an oxymoron. It's not really about one's identity. It's rather a matter of one's self-perception or one's feelings about oneself.” ThinkingMindFeelingsTermIdentityIndependentOneselfGenderOxymoron Author:William Lane Craig
“I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the public feels as opposed to what experts or pundits think the public feels. So often it provides a quick corrective on what's thought to be the conventional wisdom about public opinion. There are any number of examples that I could give you about how wrong the experts are here in Washington, in New York and elsewhere about public opinion that are revealed by public opinion polls.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantOpinionIndependentElsewhereConventional Wisdom Author:Andrew Kohut
“I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.” PeopleThinkingGivingImportantUnderstandingOpinionIndependent Author:Andrew Kohut
“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
“Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.” PeopleThinkingArtResponsibilityTeacherPerspectiveCriticismIndependentCriticsJournalismEducateComposerClassical Music Author:Terry Teachout
“I see basically two models of law firms in the world. One of the global law firm they go by the name of one-stop shops, which will open an office, everybody see and opportunity and will also practice the local law of that jurisdiction. That's a successful model as well but that's not the only model. And the other model is those of independent law firms, national champions which have some unique strengths as well and I think both have their strengths and weaknesses.” ThinkingWorldOpportunitySuccessfulOfficeUniqueWeaknessIndependentFirmChampion Author:Cyril Shroff
“I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.” ThinkingCountryWinningConstitutionIndependent Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned nations. He said that really, there were only two non-aligned nations: the U.S. and the USSR. The rest of us have to be aligned somewhere. I say similarly, in a way, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. are the only true independents, because they're the only ones who can do whatever they want and have distribution for their films built in.” ThinkingWarFilmColdIndependentLeagueCold WarCastroUssr Author:Alexander Payne
“I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.” PeopleThinkingArtEyeAudiencePaintingIndependentAppreciationFilmmakingGreat Art Author:Antoine Fuqua
“I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won't just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I think once you just set boundaries and how you're going to parent - everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.” ThinkingChildrenHateParentSleepMomDaughterI HateOur ChildrenIndependentBoundariesYour ChildrenMy DaughterSanity Author:Kim Kardashian
“I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.” ThinkingValuesQualityMarriedIndependentIncrediblesFocusedBeing Married Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss any mistakes, and I didn't know who had written some of these stories. I really didn't. I am a different person now. It's weird. I think if stories are good, they have to have a life of their own that's independent of the writer. I like to think of my characters out there in other peoples' heads. That's a nice thing to think about.” ThinkingBookDifferentCharacterMistakeNiceMissingIndependent Author:Peter Orner
“When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.” ThinkingIndependentDramaticLiving Alone Author:Lauren Bacall
“I have a bad rote memory, but I tend to learn through my experiences. And then when I went into the markets, and then starting my business as an entrepreneur, that affected my thinking a lot, too, because in order to be successful as both an investor and an entrepreneur, one has to be an independent thinker and bet against the consensus and be right. Because the consensus is built into the price, and if you're not an independent thinker in the markets you won't succeed. And if you're not an independent thinker as an entrepreneur starting out, you're not going to bring anything special.” ThinkingMemoriesSuccessfulSpecialSucceedIndependentEntrepreneurBeing SuccessfulThinkerInvestorsConsensus Author:Ray Dalio
“People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and lots of people ask, well, how did you get the booking agent or the national distribution or the tours? And I look at them like, "Good lord! Relax!" I mean, how I did it was to not care about it and to not even think about it for years and years. All I thought about was getting the next little gig in the little bar, and I get this sense that people want me to give them the secret formula or the magic trick to make it all happen.” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanCareGirlSecretLordMagicAdviceIndependentRelaxWant Me Author:Ani DiFranco
“Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.'” PeopleThinkingWorldHelpingFilmDesireLet MeIndependentFilmmakerYounger Generation Author:Tamlyn Tomita
“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 don't want you to think that I'm being willfully obtuse, but I've never really grasped how point of view could be regarded as a matter of choice independent of story. Point of view is intimately interwoven into the story that you want to tell - it is an aspect of it.” ThinkingChoicesIndependentPoint Of View Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.” ThinkingFocusTruth IsIndependentObviousArtisticVesselAnatomy Author:Valie Export
“Vladimir Putin is the bigger danger than Donald Trump because Trump can be dealt with within American democracy. There is an independent judiciary. He cannot overrule American courts. He will have to play by some rules. He will do damage certainly, but to do real damage I think he is too weak. Putin is aggressive wherever he can be. In Europe, in Germany, Putin will not stop.” ThinkingRealDemocracyDangerWeakIndependentAggressiveJudiciary Author:Garry Kasparov