Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

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• My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Independent

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Independent
  • Rather

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Children
  • Education
  • Independent

• My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Old

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Question
  • Party
  • Independent

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I'm always independent. No boss.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Independent
  • Boss

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!

  

  Keith Barry
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• My body is one that kind of looks at weights, and then all of a sudden, I have muscle.

  

  Cynthia Erivo

• A Ryan Coogler film? I'm there for it.

  

  John David Washington

• The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • World
  • Great
  • City

• An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Independent