Independent Quotes - Page 24

• There's no such thing as an independent person.

  Peter Jennings

  Independent Person, Persons

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• People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Together

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• Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Light, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Night, Impact, America

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• That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

  Todd McFarlane

  Book, Artist, People

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• Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Philosophy, Community, Age

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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• God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Country, Years

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.268

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• When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Agents, Kind

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• The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Perception

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• Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Leader, Lobbyists

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  Ben Bernanke

  Political, Essentials, Influence

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, www.federalreserve.gov. November 15, 2005.

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• There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Atheism, Pestilence, Morality

  Jeremy Bentham (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.70

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• The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  Gustave Le Bon

  People, Atheism, Age

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Men, Impossible Things

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Attitude, Men, Civilization

  "Atheism Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Opportunity, Destiny, Men

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• Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.

  Philip Schaff

  Religious, Party, Atheism

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• This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, Korea, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Sweet, Flower, Fire

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• I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.

  Drake

  Artist, Universal

  "Wake N' Watch: Drake 'Best I Ever Had' + Exclusive Interview". Interview with Damien Scott, uk.complex.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.

  Joel Surnow

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

  Forest Whitaker

  Unique, Film, Fund

  Source: collider.com

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• The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Government, Independence

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film had to rent from Panavision and the expenses were humongous. Now, given the advances in technology, you can put out extraordinary quality filmmaking at nothing like the price it used to be.

  Kathleen Turner

  Technology, Giving, Quality

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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