Top 580 Independent Quotes

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

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.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

We’ve sold over 100,000 records so far, and we’re an independent label.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you’re a Hall of Famer.

Now that I’ve established myself in a drama, I’m plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

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.

You can’t develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That’s quite independent from Java, actually.

I don’t want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it’s just too hard these days.

If a book I’ve committed myself to review turns out to be ‘disappointing’ I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

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

I don’t think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it’s done by an independent group or whether it’s done by the campaign itself.

Make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You push for colour-blind casting; you draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are, not what colour your parents happen to be.

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn’t require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.

All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn’t choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don’t think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

I am emotional, honest, and sensitive and a great human being because of my dad. Tough and independent woman because of my mom.

‘TableTop’ is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn’t have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They’re up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

We’re told that independent film lovers… folks that are used to watching art house films, won’t come out and see a film with black people in it – I’ve been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that’s not true.

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don’t want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you’re asking at every second to discuss performance.

When you’re making an independent film what you don’t have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

I’m the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient. You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that.

All in all, I’d like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film… it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.

I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it’s become very corporate, the independent scene.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn’t like that at 14.

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.

The truth for me is that I’ve been doing independent film since the get-go, so that’s a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

I couldn’t sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called ‘independent ads.’ Same thing for unions.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

From a production point of view, I still have one foot firmly planted in the independent film world, and much of the shooting on ‘Jumper’ was done ‘Swingers’-style because that was the only way we could afford to do it.

If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.

Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That’s been the cycle.

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.

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.