Independent Quotes - Page 29

• In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  Elliott Abrams

  Iran, Freedom Of Speech, Election

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• As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

  John Anderson

  Country, Party, Years

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• The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

  Tucker Max

  Tvs, Can Do, Lots Of Money

  Source: movieweb.com

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• With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Together, Schedules, Lines

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Stars, War

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Political, Plans

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

  Gren Wells

  Doors, World, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Needs

  "John Boyne hates celebrity children's books". Interview with Kelly Gallucci, www.usatoday.com. April 11, 2014.

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• I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

  John Waters

  Jobs, Know How, Knows

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• Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Done, Littles

  "I Could Have Sworn". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.

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• I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.

  Kurt Cobain

  Teenage, Bridges, Cedars

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, www.spin.com. December 12, 2017.

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• The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

  School, Years, Spotlight

  "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".

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• The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Integrity, Struggle, Mind

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• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

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• I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

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• In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Average

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

  Donatella Versace

  Mother, Fashion, Brother

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

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• The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, People, Liberty

  Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  Karen DeCrow

  Father, Pregnancy, Men

  Letter to the editor by Karen DeCrow, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1982.

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• I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.

  Phoebe Snow

  Energy, Gone, Body

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• I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

  Alison Moyet

  Gold, Littles, England

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• I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

  Paula Creamer

  Growing Up, Spoons, Adults

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• If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

  Franjo Tuđman

  Yugoslavia, Alliances, States

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• There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Hate, Play, People

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