Independent Quotes - Page 35

• I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

  Nicolas Cage

  Roots, Film, Used

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

  Creed Bratton

  Auditions, Film, Stills

  Source: talknerdywithus.com

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• Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.

  Dane Cook

  Decision, Age, Crowds

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• The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

  Tucker Max

  Hard Work, Amazing Life, Answers

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Style, Listening

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.450, Penguin

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Cat, Winning

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• My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, Reading, People

  "We heart YA" blog Interview, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

  Tom Robbins

  Witty, Strong, Real

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• I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Love Is, Stuff

  "indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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• To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

  Milton Friedman

  Unions, Currency, States

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

  Milton Friedman

  Gold, Unions, Silver

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, People, Study

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.

  Rob Reiner

  Dad, Needs, Stuff

  Source: variety.com

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• What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

  Ani DiFranco

  Writing, Media, Play

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• Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Self, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."

  Renata Adler

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Alice Gregory, www.believermag.com. December 12, 2012.

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• In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

  George Carlin

  Identity, Adolescence

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

  George Carlin

  Mind, Needs, World

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Views, Intellectual, Trying

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• As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.

  Tyler Hilton

  Writing, Artist, Media

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Mario Bunge

  Ideas, Roots, Space

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Writing, Growing, Inspired

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Dollars, Cost, Problem

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

  Frank Chodorov

  Rights, Government, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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