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Quotes About Independent

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
~ Gloria Steinem
I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.
~ Jerry Weintraub
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
~ Pierre Omidyar
I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.
~ Tim Burton
My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything, usually, until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it. It's just a job, and I approach it that way.
~ Mike Colter
Joining forces with Cardinal Health supports Kinray's mission to help retail independent pharmacies serve as an integral provider of care for our evolving health care system.
~ Stewart Rahr
I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
~ Martin Freeman
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
~ Ralph Hall
He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around.
~ Raymond Chandler
The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there's another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your reach.
~ Rebecca Solnit
In one of the chapters of her book my mother characterizes the relationship of sisters as one that can illustrate the essence of relationships, an understanding companionship of two complete and independent individuals who choose to be together.
~ Reeve Lindbergh
And if we have independent criteria for choosing among religious moralities, why not cut out the middle man and go straight for the moral choice without the religion?
~ Richard Dawkins
It is, of course, true that 'Memes are utterly dependent upon genes, but genes can exist and change quite independently of memes' (Bonner 1980). But this does not mean that the ultimate criterion for success in meme selection is gene survival.
~ Richard Dawkins
The point is the obvious one that selection at any one locus is not independent of selection at other loci.
~ Richard Dawkins
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
~ Richard Hofstadter
I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.
~ Julian Fellowes
Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.
~ Karen Hawkins
The utility of a thing makes it a use value.[14] But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities.
~ Karl Marx
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm really a one-man band.
~ Graham King
I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
~ Loudon Wainwright III
You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.
~ Louis C. K.
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson