Independent Quotes - Page 6

• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Sky, House, Design

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Media, Doe

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• Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Violation Of Human Rights, Government, Squad

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• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  Eamon de Valera

  Real, Islands, Self

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• If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Integrity, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

  David Remnick

  Running, Risk, Serious

  "Ask the Author Live: David Remnick on Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2010.

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Responsibility, Government, Views

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

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• So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.

  John Rutledge

  Long, People, Safe

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• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  William Whewell

  Exercise, Ideas, Mind

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• Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

  Julian Baggini

  Morality, Without God

  Julian Baggini (2009). “Atheism”, p.53, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

  Alfred Nobel

  Children, Mistake, Men

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• Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

  Maren Jensen

  Adventure, Character, Space

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• I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

  Michael Urie

  Directors, Three, Done

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• But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going to be independent and not bow to leadership in either of the major parties.

  Justin Amash

  Party, People, Hopeful

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• You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state, you have to do a great deal of independent research. A trading philosophy is something that cannot just be transferred from one person to another; it's something that you have to acquire yourself through time and effort.

  Richard Driehaus

  Philosophy, Believe, Order

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• I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Sleep, Cat

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• I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

  John Leguizamo

  Actors, Film, Breathe

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

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• Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

  Neal Boortz

  Government, People, Independence

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• I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

  Nelson Mandela

  Outspoken, Presses, Values

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.163, Pan Macmillan

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• Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

  Albert Einstein

  Order, Events, Existence

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• I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Men, Needs, Driving

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• From my mom and dad, because they're happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I'm so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It's about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much.

  Erin Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Winning

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• The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Humanity, Pieces

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• The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Wrath, Trembling

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