Quotes About Independent

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.

All reformers are bachelors—all extreme reformers have been bachelors.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville.

I'm not the type who will go and ask people for roles.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don't want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.

I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.

Media Matters hates anyone, black or white, who is independent and unafraid to speak the truth - because they are children of the lie. Their father is Satan.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

A mind cannot exist independently, without an object. By its very nature, mind is the subject, the agent, the doer. Subject and object are interdependent—without one the other cannot exist. This is why if, through deep meditation, we free our minds from interaction with all external and internal objects, the subjective mind will naturally focus on itself as the object.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.