Independent Quotes
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I try to be as independent as possible.
Dries van Noten
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Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, by which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
Patrick Henry
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We've always been for women and for biggin' up their self-esteem. That's why we do songs like 'Independent.'
Pepa
DJ Spinderella
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Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.
Blanche Barton
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The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it can hold power to account in order unequivocally to change people's lives for the better.
Katharine Viner
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I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.
Andrea Bocelli
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I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.
Linda Evans
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The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.
Martin Jacques
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I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
D.A. Wallach
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.
Peter George Peterson
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I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it.
Elvis Mitchell
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Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
Colin Trevorrow
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Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.
Amy Chua
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...when we became independent and Nehru spelt out his vision, we appeared to be the leader, we are the only country which articulated the aspirations of Asia as a whole for the first time. Then other countries, small countries, big countries have come up asserting themselves, and, but still we are, because of our economic development, everybody knows that India is geographically a big central chunk of Asia and that it is an expanding economy. It is a technologically progressing society and in every field it is making a mark. And everybody recognises this role of India, but I think we have to articulate our position in Asia, in a new way, in a new set of circumstances that would appeal to everybody.
K. R. Narayanan
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Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
Doug Liman
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To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.
David Novak
