Top 1200 Independent Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.

Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course.

I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.

The process of making an independent film is like building a mini Eiffel Tower with popsicle sticks - it doesn't happen overnight, and it's not easy.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

I didn't know how many independent bookstores had amazing wine lists until I toured with 'Another Brooklyn.'

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.

Until I was pursuing my collegiate education, I was in Madurai with my parents. Bengaluru was the first place where I was independent. So, the city is very close to my heart.

Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

Dear Miss Independent, I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools. You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren't ready. God, I hope you're ready now. Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love you every day for the rest of my life. —Jack

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

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

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing.

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

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.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

When I got to WWE developmental, that pedigree did not help you at all. It was against you. You were an enemy of the state when you walked in, when you had an independent background.

My job is healing to me. Charlotte is the woman you want to become. A strong, groundbreaking, independent female in a male-dominated world.

I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.

I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.

Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

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.'