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Quotes About Independent

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.
~ Harrison Ford
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
~ Diane Lane
If Catholicism predisposes the faithful to obedience, it certainly does not prepare them for inequality; but the contrary may be said of Protestantism, which generally tends to make men independent, more than to render them equal.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
But the creation of unpaid offices is to form a class of wealthy and independent officials; that is the core of an aristocracy. If the people still retain the right to choose, the exercise of that right has inevitable limitations.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.
~ Ali Smith
Owens women ignored convention; they were headstrong and willful, and meant to be that way.
~ Alice Hoffman
The aunts are so old it's impossible to tell their age. Their hair is white and their spines are crooked. They wear long black skirts and laced leather boots. Though they haven't left Massachusetts in more than forty years, they're certainly not intimidated by travel. Or anything else, for that matter. They know what they want and they're not afraid to be outspoken.
~ Alice Hoffman
My research was stimulating but solitary
~ Alison Bechdel
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
~ Ambrose Bierce
However, in 2004 there were only some seven hundred community foundations in the United States and almost three thousand corporate foundations, so the overwhelming number of the approximately 68,000 American foundations are independent foundations that are effectively unaccountable to any outside force.)
~ Joel L. Fleishman
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
~ Debra Winger
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
~ Patti Smith
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
~ Rudolph A. Marcus
She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
~ E. Lockhart
Imogen was a New York City child: open-minded in a way Jule had seen only on television, apparently utterly confident in her own desirability as a friend and hostess.
~ E. Lockhart
It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.
~ E.M. Forster
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
~ Edgar R. Fiedler
Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.
~ Edward Burns
The process of developing psychic senses is fairly independent of the evolution of the soul.
~ Antera
Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
When you're external to a publisher, most independent developers live on paranoia. The mainstay of every day is paranoia - every indie company believes their publisher in some way has these Machiavellian plans that will cause disaster for the game and the studio.
~ Peter Molyneux
There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.
~ John Battelle
You never know with Punk. He is definitely somebody who does things his own way, and I think the biggest thing is that you can never count out what his next move will be. I think no one would have predicted his move to UFC - nobody would have predicted a lot of things he does - so whatever he chooses to do, he will do what feels best in the moment.
~ Samoa Joe