Independent Quotes
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It was hard for me to leave the nest, but my mom is super proud of me. She said, 'You became independent really quickly, and I'm so proud of you,' but she misses me all the same.
Mirai Nagasu
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
William S. Burroughs
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I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.
Keith Olbermann
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.
John Paul DeJoria
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It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.
Paul Dinello
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
Sherman Alexie
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You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Josh Hartnett
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The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.
Judith Malina
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Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.
Ella Baker
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You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
Edward Zwick
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I'm a pretty serious Independent.
Tommy Franks
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There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
George Washington
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
Epictetus
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For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
Rebecca Traister
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The more a man is successful in getting out or coming out from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control or dominate the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.
African Spir
