Top 1200 Strong Independent Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

Weaker currencies abroad mean a strong dollar, and a stronger dollar, together with a weak global environment, is a drag on the U.S. economy. So it's important, as it affects overall levels of production and employment in the U.S. There are many domestic industries doing well in the United States, notwithstanding a strong dollar.

I come from a background of independent films.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I'll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.

Making an independent film is so different.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

Shaq wasn't talented - he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn't strong.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign country.

...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

There are almost no takers for independent musicians in India.

For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

I was the first independent to walk in with a documentary.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

All of my friends are independent in thought, that's important.

A lot of independent filmmakers are really catty.

A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.

It's always interesting to watch people who have been incredibly successful in their own businesses work in a group made up of equally strong personalities. It takes a special kind of leader who can effectively manage a team of veritable strangers and find the best way to get strong, winning performances from them.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad -- a foreign policy with alliances.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even.Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

If you look at the RNC, we had a very strong - at my suggestion and I give Reince Priebus credit for this - at my suggestion, because I know something about this world, I said I want a very strong defensive mechanism, I don't want to be hacked, and we did that.

Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Texans are by nature independent people.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be." "What makes you strong, Mia?" "Purpose. Love never worked for me.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.

I've been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.