Independent Quotes - Page 15

• For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

  John Barrasso

  Years, Medicine, Care

  John Barrasso's remarks on coverage at White House health summit in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.

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

  Luke Evans

  Film, Made, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

  Alice Englert

  Growing Up, School, Choices

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• I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

  Alice Englert

  Want, Sake, Film

  "'Beautiful Creatures' Star Alice Englert on Why She Committed to a Potential Franchise-Starting Film" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

  Atom Egoyan

  Dream, Careers, Film

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Play, Orchestra

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• I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Fun, Son, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Believe, Ignorance

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.386

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• Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.

  Andre Breton

  Real, Writing, Psychics

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• The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Science, Discovery, Analogies

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

  Charles Babbage

  Successful, Science, Men

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Science, Space, Imagination

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• This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely independent of the electrochemical affinities of matter; I believe, on the contrary, that it is only a new manifestation, but since we cannot see their connection and mutual dependence, it will be easier to designate it by a separate name. I will call this force catalytic force. Similarly, I will call the decomposition of bodies by this force catalysis, as one designates the decomposition of bodies by chemical affinity analysis.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Believe, Science, Names

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Struggle, Adventure, Men

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• Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fall, Mean, Risk

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.140, John Wiley & Sons

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• The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Self, Joy

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• Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

  David Crystal

  Mean, People, Understanding

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• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

  Hans Frank

  Justice, Firsts, Endeavor

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• I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Democrat

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• Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

  Millard Fillmore

  Rights, Owing, Individual

  Millard Fillmore (1856). “Biography of M. F.”, p.157

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• I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

  Ryan Hurst

  Thinking, Car, Motorcycle

  "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks SONS OF ANARCHY and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Peaceful, Principles

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

  Josh Holloway

  Stars, Actors, Seven

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• I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Thinking, Always Trying

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• No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Running, Two, Effectiveness

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