Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Davis

Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.

Julie Delpy

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

Josh Hartnett

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

Josh Hartnett

Honestly, I guess if you looked at my CV, I've been doing independent movies since I started. I think that I kind of took a few steps back from Hollywood as soon as it all started to come my way because I wasn't quite ready for the attention.

John Adams

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

Studs Terkel

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

John C. Reilly

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

R. A. Salvatore

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

Terrence Howard

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula

Terrence Howard

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family

Neal Boortz

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

Neale Donald Walsch

We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.

Tucker Max

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

Tucker Max

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.

Frank Chodorov

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.

Paulo Freire

Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.

Nancy Travis

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

Mike Leigh

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

Joseph Alsop

By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

Joseph Addison

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Josef Albers

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

Kevin Whately

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.

Joe Biden

We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.

Jim Sturgess

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Jim Talent

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

Mao Zedong

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Madeleine L'Engle

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

Lytton Strachey

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

Louisa May Alcott

Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

Louisa May Alcott

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

John Green

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

John F. Kennedy

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.