Top 1200 Independent Person Quotes & Sayings

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

I am an independent person expressing myself.

It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

I'm more interested in policy than politics, and I can do that as an independent person.

The 1960s and 1970s were the real years for independent film, because they were really independent. Plus, there were hundreds of distributors. There were all these companies that basically did exploitation, but they were independent. Now, there are very few independent distributors.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

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

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

I'm quite an independent person.

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

I think that I'm a very independent person, so I need somebody who's independent and strong within themselves as well. I don't necessarily need somebody in order to get things done. I don't need a blanket, do you know what I mean?

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

My mom raised me to be an independent woman, and if there is anything I want in life, to go after it. And that nobody could hold me back. The only person that could do that was myself. That's the core of who I am and she ingrained that in me at a really young age, so I've been an independent, strong person my whole life.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

Well, I'm an independent person.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

I'm a very independent person.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

Surrender goes against our very nature to be independent. Surrender indicates we willingly choose to rely on others. We must rewire our thinking to recognize that needing another person (and being the person someone else needs) is not a weakness; it only strengthens us.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

British independent television is exactly the same as independent cinema. Very low budget, interesting, cutting edge stuff.

We should trust judges to be independent, investigators to be independent.

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

My mom is a very independent person, and she's the funniest, smartest person in the room, all the time.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

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

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.