Independent Quotes - Page 21

• The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Government, Language, Former

  "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.

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• I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Mean, Scotland, World

  "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on striking balance with Cameron’s UK". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2015.

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• For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Vision, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Wife, Dancer, Pioneers

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.

  Malcolm X

  Ideas, Giving, Political

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• When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

  Tablo

  Succeed, Failing, Responsible

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• In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Order, Two

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

  Paul Tillich

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

  Spike Lee

  Cutting, Creative, Hollywood

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Christian, Past, Men

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• I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Fall, Hands, Want

  "Hamas rejects Abbas unity pledge". Mahmoud Abbas' address to the UN General Assembly, news.bbc.co.uk. September 21, 2006.

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• A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Men, People, Majority

  "Free Man". Manifest by Simon Soloveychik, 1994.

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Years, Choices, Dancer

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• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  Harri Holkeri

  War, Years, United States

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• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

  Fred Brooks

  Data, Trying, Principles

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Humble

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• I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

  John Sayles

  Mean, Once Upon A Time, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

  Christopher Dodd

  Senior, Years, Long

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• Creators understand that their emotions are not necessarily a sign of the circumstances. They understand that in desperate circumstances they may experience joy, and in jubilant circumstances they may feel regret. They know that any emotion will change. But because emotions are not the centerpiece of their lives, they do not pander to them. They create what they create, not in reaction to their emotions but independent of them. On days filled with the depths of despair, they can create. On days filled with the heights of joy, they can create.

  Robert Fritz

  Regret, Joy, Despair

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

  Jiang Zemin

  Rights, People, Support

  "Israel, Palestinians to resume direct negotiations". www.cnn.com. July 13, 1998.

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• I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Done, Film

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• Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

  Kurt Bills

  Party, Hard Work, Blue

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• It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

  Lee Smolin

  Words Of Wisdom, Lasts, Speak

  "The Life of the Cosmos". Book by Lee Smolin, January 1, 1997.

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• We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.

  Henry D. Taylor

  Girl, Wisdom, Book

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