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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

When you are an independent artist, it is hard to be heard or seen. This is a way for independent artists to get more attention.

John Wicks

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Henry David Thoreau

Mostly, I've made independent films that don't see the light of day.

Rachael Leigh Cook

Every soul is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

G. Wilhelm Leibniz

The U.N. is not going to conduct an independent review of the election results.

Robert Sullivan

We are independent operations in India and this stake sale will not affect us.

Rajeev Chaba

San Francisco has always been a place apart, and a center of eccentric and independent thinkers. And what we started here, I don't think could have grown up anywhere else. You can create a social context in which culture can be created, but you can't directly create the culture.

Larry Harvey

A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a democracy, and I am concerned about any actions which may erode the independence of the Iraqi media.

John W. Warner

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

Bill Moyers

There's no politics involved in this. It's just the guidelines and requirements for independent candidates.

Scott Haywood

We want an independent commission.

Henry A. Waxman

Boutique distributors are very often based in New York City, they specialize in American independent and foreign films and young independent directors.

Greg Dean Schmitz

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

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

She's hateful right now. She can't do anything for herself. ... She's a very independent person. She can't brush her hair.

Amber Margarejo

We chose this site because we want to build a state-of the art distribution and walk-in facility from the ground up for our independent distributors and employees.

Tom Harms

She was an incredible human being, a strong, independent woman, and she did a lot of charity work. It's easy to become enamored with who she was and what she did.

Angela Lawson

If independent turnout is high, it's probably good news for Edwards. If the African-American turnout is high, it's probably good news for Kerry.

Carlos Watson

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Arthur Baldwin

I like to say it's a love letter to independent film in the form of a fart joke.

Chris Gore

The impulse to form independent authorities is profoundly undemocratic.

Charles Flowers

They are eminently able people. Both should be regarded as pretty independent.

Margaret Ng

[The mayor] wants to put it under the cemetery board, which is basically an independent board. The council does not want it under the cemetery board.

Frank Fisher

It used to be independent cells, with dedicated staff. Now we have a complete work cell focused on all the linkage assemblies.

Brian Tapajna

Creativity and independent vision.

Steve Buscemi

Our culture defines us as an independent nation. So it's troubling that it is barely on this government's radar.

Stephen Waddell

We had 23 of them, ... each a craftsman and a leader, running independent but coordinated crews. The studio was not happy.

David Lester

Stronger, more independent audit system.

Arthur Andersen

We are the only community that has an independent command center.

Sal Liberatore

This and ethanol will help make the U.S. energy-independent. We're also interested in co-locating with ethanol plants, because we could use the wet mash to make fuel.

Brian Appel

The Commission cannot simultaneously claim that a trustee is its own expert, with whom all exchanges are 'internal', and that he is an independent source of authority.

Ian Forrester

Sen. Elizabeth Dole's decisions are made independent of Bob Dole.

Lindsay Taylor Mabry

You really need to have some independent agency that has the ability to look into these things without being quashed.

Beth Daley

It's the end of the independent supermarket.

Jim Stephens

I'm optimistic that it'll be a good result in the election, independent of the game.

Mark Gorris

We present the best of the independent foreign-language and Hollywood films. We increase the number of films available to the community.

Noel Hazard

They are a very independent lot these Hewlett shareholders. They don't do what you want them to.

Tom Burnett

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul Gray

We're very pleased with the growth of the independent programs in the metro Atlanta area.

Michael Drake

Maybe we shouldn't embark on such a huge policy change without an independent analysis.

Rep. David Orentlicher

The only state where it's clearly more difficult for an independent candidate to get on the ballot for governor is Alabama.

Richard Winger

The banking, insurance and financial services industries will be best served by an independent force.

James Hart

Taiwan is an independent, sovereign state. Taiwan is not part of China.

David Huang

You fulfilled your dream, you laid the foundation for Kosovo to become free and independent state.

Nexhat Daci

Harry was a truly independent spirit and one of the funniest people I've ever known.

Roly Keating

If the vote was today, Hollywood would be an independent city.

Johnny Grant

We pride ourselves on being truly independent and basing many of our decisions on how our fans will benefit.

Marc Deforest

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

Essentially, it came down to a 'he said, she said. The alleged event took place behind closed doors without any independent witnesses or evidence to support the charge.

Mike Edmondson

It would be a draw. If there were more things down here, even independent of a baseball game, sure, it's a good idea. It's someplace different to go.

Kevin Kelly

How can you be against the national anthem? We are all Americans whether we are Republican, Democrat, independent, black, white, whatever. We are all Americans.

David Circle

The members of Selected Independent Funeral Homes are dedicated to honoring and preserving the memories of those who have gone before us.

George Clarke

The Mercury sponsorship gives us the ability to support our independent film community and the films themselves to the best of our ability.

Mark Cuban

A lot of these policies will also pay for home improvements to help people remain independent.

Rick Schwarck

She was strong and very independent.

David Dorsey

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

William Whewell

Was the Office of Independent Counsel out to get the Clintons or out to get anyone else?

Julie Myers

There is no connection. The PSC is an independent agency.

Melanie Fonder

Jim Gerlach ran in his first race to say he would be an independent voice. He has not been the independent voice and leader we need in Congress.

Lois Murphy

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

Michelle Rodriguez

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Ron Perry

We, in our own quite independent way, have pushed for more democracy in Cuba. We have done so on the basis of contact with Cuba, rather than isolation of Cuba.

Leon Brittan

Willamette is a very proud company and wants to remain independent.

Mark Connelly

I said, 'Yah, it's cold. But, we've had to adjust to a lot of changes. And if this is an opportunity for us to get more independent and save and get ahead, then we should take it.

Johnnie Hayes

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Doug Adkins

Independent florists can't make it with the brick-and-mortar model anymore. We decided upfront we would be an Internet-only company.

Lauren Christiansen

There's some definite independent strength in the Australian dollar, aided by gold and commodities.

Richard Franulovich

We are finding that things that once appeared to be biologically independent are closely connected. We are not just collections of independent parts.

Peter K. Sorger

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences.

Ben S. Bernanke

We've already had an independent company look into it, ... What happened to that report?

Jim Baker

These are the questions that need to be asked by an independent commission.

Rebecca Kirszner

This year's festival is as 'independent' as it's ever been. There can be no confusion between the films we're showing and anything the studios would have even considered making.

Geoffrey Gilmore

The basic idea of the new system is to empower the federations so that they become more independent to develop themselves.

Kusnan Ismukanto

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

Ahmad Khatami

That's clearly not an independent organization.

Paul Blank

You get to see Iraqis as Iraqis, and there's this huge group of people out there that want to be an independent state.

Lt. Elisabeth Gerhardt

There will be a lot of exposure. It's another opportunity to be seen. Last year I had a great year, but I was in Independent ball.

Jack Santora

I'm a very independent person. I like to be in control and do it all. It's hard to say I need help.

Kristen Griffith

We are, as far as I know, the only totally independent singles event in Memphis.

Gerald Pruitt

Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

Julien Pain

No way. If this is the result, we'll call for an independent investigation. We'll call on the City Council to make it illegal to spy on peaceful and political community groups.

Wes Modes

If you choose to be an independent community hospital you have to figure out how you're going to deal with ... the fact that you're smaller.

Robert Morrison

It's hard enough running as an independent in this state.

Brad Mcclellan

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

Steve Odland

On the one hand, you have the feeling he is doing it to show (the US) he is independent, on the other hand you have the feeling that he is going to cover his odds.

Danielle Pletka

I can always run as an independent. I wouldn't run as a Liberal with Paul Martin as the leader.

Alfonso Gagliano

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award].

Sean Penn

Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another.

Charles Hennekens

We're committed to cooperating with the independent examiner as well as fulfilling all of our other obligations under the settlement.

Dick Parsons

As prime minister, I have been working on creating a democratic and independent Kosovo.

Bajram Kosumi

It's a little premature to sound the death knell for independent book stores.

Meg Smith

There was no woman involved to that extent in her day. She was a very forceful person, strikingly beautiful, independent.

Lawrence Hogan

We need to open it for more exploration. We need to become more independent.

Kevin Bishop

He's not being brought in to be CFO. Independent of John's hiring, we continue to move forward in our search.

Debra Decourcy

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael

He has very good experience in independent schools, Catholic elementary schools and a lot of experience and enthusiasm and natural talent.

Mary Burns

An independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Ahmed Qurei

We think the case is building for Asia to become a more independent source of growth for the global economy.

Adam Le Mesurier

We're not trying to hurt anyone out there, the smaller guys (independent gas station owners). We're asking for competition.

Sen. Nancy Argenziano

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

James Woods

We have a strong, independent judge.

Bruce Cutler

I personally doubt he would run again as an independent. He'd probably run as a major party candidate, and he is a Republican.

Roger Stone

This year's program reflects all the exceptional qualities we've come to associate with independent film.

Geoffrey Gilmore

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

William Massey

That's understandable because they are getting out and dating and getting more independent.

Jane Hagar

The way that they've presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that's misleading.

Melanie Sloan

We are stepping up to facilitate the government of Afghanistan's transition to a fully independent and democratically elected government that expresses the will of the people.

Aileen Carroll

An independent pharmacist can't win. At these prices, they can't stay in business.

Jim Ammen

She's very smart and she's been able to do things. She's got friends here and a job cleaning buildings so she could do it, but she's scared. I want to help her get back to a more independent situation.

Joan Holden

I'm deeply impressed by what I read, but we have an independent law court in Germany.

Joschka Fischer

The new bid competitively pushes into the range (of independent valuations) without breaking the back of the entity post acquisition.

George Clapham

He's done nothing but carry the water of the independent counsel and I'm going to prove it.

Mark Geragos

The legislature is not a rubber-stamp organization, ... We are an independent branch of government.

Gloria Romero

That's where Rehnquist was at his most vocal, ... He was always willing to fight for an independent judiciary.

Carl W. Tobias

Failure to be independent and failure to be circumspect carries a serious threat of liability.

Charles Elson

It's been important for us to remain independent and be a voice for women's health.

Ceo Anne Saile

We are not going to be an independent product company; we are not going to develop our own end-product sales channel. We don't develop IP or apply for patents.

Dave Purvis

And be independent and let them go and not worry about having to deal with me.

Gary Pearson

The amazing part is how disabled they are and how independent they are.

John Chamberlain

An independent (owner) who has established relationships with (his) clientele is a very important part of the industry.

John Livengood

Genius is independent of situation.

Charles Churchill

We have an independent witness coming with us to observe us. What a gig that is. I'd love to have his job.

John Taylor

To those people earning ($5.15) an hour it probably would (make a difference), but if you're asking me is it dramatically going to impact their access to housing, probably not. It's certainly a start, but it's not going to create a pool of independent living.

Donna Rose

Mozart was the first major composer who created his own career as an independent businessman, an independent entrepreneur.

David Ferris

Whether the investigations are civilian or led by the judiciary, the most important thing is for them to be independent, impartial and transparent.

Nicole Choueiry

Our bottom line is, we don't have to do anything. If we do choose to have more than eight members, that's a decision independent of what any other conference in America is considering.

Craig Thompson

I am very independent. I try to keep a balance in Chinatown. I am not ruled by anyone else.

Dwayne Hultquist

We were pretty independent and operated pretty much out of the mainstream.

Jack Jablonski

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

William Mckinley

One of the concerns we have is how is the money being spent, so we might need an independent arbitrator.

Sen. Ulysses Currie

Each property seems to be independent of the other.

Bill Swanson

You could have a dramatically different House of Representatives - one that's far more independent of the leadership than currently exists.

Harvey Kronberg

We are aware of the investigation that is going on, but we are not conducting an independent investigation at this point. We haven't been asked to conduct our own investigation.

Sherri Lawson

She is tough, she is independent, she is edgy, she gets involved in the action.

Aaliyah

There will be an independent investigation by outside counsel.

Mayor Gerard Couture

She is an intelligent, independent girl who wants to have her own career.

Kate Middleton

It was hard to have her here, because she was used to an independent life, and we were, too, but it was the right thing to do.

Ruth Hayden

We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?

Amanullah Khan

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

Steve Buscemi

The commission is an independent decision-making body and there are strong rules that govern how they conduct their business.

Linda Barth

Anthony Miranda: Independent Melodic Velocities.

Frederic Chopin

They even asked him if he had ever distributed any positive information about the office of independent counsel.

Jo Marsh

They thoroughly deserve it... the way they've done, what they've done in that totally independent spirit is very admirable.

Neil Finn

I'm looking for, basically, the ability to examine (the body) and make an independent determination on what happened. I don't have the answers. I'm trying to find them.

Robert Gershman

Miami wasn't in a conference at that time. Miami was an independent.

Butch Davis

As for commercial or independent films, that's not even a concern at this point.

Cole Mueller

They make it very difficult for an Independent candidate, which may explain why its been so long since we've had one.

Brad Mcclellan

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Gordon Fischer

Galileo will be a completely independent system made and controlled by Europeans and is a civilian service.

Franco Bonacina

Bye, Superstar. Try to be a little more independent.

Dr. Stewart Goldman

I'm young, and I have my life together. I have a house and a full-time job, and I'm very independent.

Beverly Mitchell

This has become far more important today. Kids are becoming more independent.

Kurt Barnard

BizTalk is XML-based, and while it is aimed at boosting the Microsoft platform and BackOffice, at its core XML is platform-independent and Microsoft certainly realizes that.

Warren Wilson

There's no university policy that I am aware of [about contraceptives], but we're an independent clinic that works in concert with UTC.

Chris Smith

Our judges in Kane County have been proudly independent of political affiliations.

Judge Wiley Edmondson

We had to do an internal investigation in the beginning and we needed someone independent to do that.

George Thompson

There used to be a smaller business section and an independent business section but they closed down, which is generally perceived as not a good thing.

Greg Yates

It?s very hard for (independent ambulance companies) to stay in business.

Greg Case

It allows you to raise matters in an independent and unbiased manner.

Idris Jala

An independent study found no link between birth defects and pesticide use at Ag-Mart.

Leo Bottary

Independent films are very much the organic foods of the film industry. They're in their purest form, honest and straight from the heart.

Diane Raver

The only really good thing was the principle to have an independent commissioner.

Allan Cutler

Today we're at the beginning (of the genre) but there's a great opportunity for independent filmmakers to build a direct relationship with their audience.

Duncan Kennedy

We need an independent investigation.

Knut Vollebaek

I think there's nothing wrong with more festivals. If anything, I think it's great for the area, so they understand what independent film is.

Randi Emerman

He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his church.

Lillian Hansen

The right conditions have not arisen for the (Tigers) to abandon the policy of independent statehood.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

You may be paying a few dollars more to buy [it at an independent dealership] than at the Car Max. The thing you have to ask yourself when you go in is: Do you feel comfortable for what you're paying?

Paul Eisenstein

Getting these two schools to come to agree on coming to an independent site is really big. It was difficult, but in the end the reward will be a really good day, a good weekend for downtown Baltimore.

Kevin Byrne

The judges are all appointed by the chief executive. How can you say we have an independent judiciary?

Ronny Tong

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Kwame Nkrumah

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Sharan Burrow

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

Patricia Clarkson

You can now become energy independent by making your own gasoline from corn, water and enzymes for only 12 cents per gallon.

Kevin Ryan

There is no such thing as being too independent.

Victoria Billings

The NASE was not an independent entity. It was a marketing ruse.

David Henderson

It's a fresh reminder of just how dangerous it is for all journalists. Whether they are Iraqis or foreign, independent or embedded, the dangers do not discriminate.

Joel Campagna

We were a little independent and selfish at the beginning of the year, and we paid for it.

Gregg Ford

We're going to try and make it an independent, hip hotel.

Larry Hamilton

We know there are not big groups of wolves here. We would have detected that. But we do know we have some independent animals.

Brian Mastenbrook

Today in the Busch Series, the independent, one-car team doesn't have a chance.

Larry Pearson

We call that Sean's little independent movie.

Patty Duke

It allowed us to have some independent, objective voice that corroborated some of the things we all knew.

Alana Brenner

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

W. R. Inge

I think it's important, personally, that things be coordinated, although there are seemingly independent responsibilities here.

Chris Hamilton

Miramax applied studio-marketing techniques to independent films.

Peter Biskind

At this point, we're happy to know that what he alleged to be true ... has enough validity for an independent board to bring charges.

Gil Gall

Independent living does not make sense to us.

Marylou Sudders

The allegations are of quite startling brutality in the implementation of force-feeding. Yet there's been no independent medical evaluation, and there absolutely needs to be one.

Leonard Rubenstein

Independent [knowing] they can make the most basic decisions of life -- and those are when and where to bear children.

Sarah Weddington

Students at this level have earned this opportunity to be more independent, as this is a bridge to their upcoming college level experiences.

Nancy Long

Independent filmmakers now have the ability to deliver quality entertainment to the masses, cost-effectively and efficiently with the help of DAVE.TV and Beyond Media.

Adrian Grenier

An independent investigation is essential because these killings have huge implications for efforts to establish the rule of law in Iraq.

Philip Alston

It really gives the appearance that the judges have to answer to the politicians, and our democracy is set up very clearly to ensure the judiciary is independent from the executive branch.

Susan Mcgrath

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.

Mahalia Jackson

He's not a typical movie star, he's very independent and very down to earth.

Paige Rense

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Shawn Fanning

I don't understand one thing. It's traditional in this country, when someone is accused, to let him tell his story to an independent body.

Donald Fehr

They are going to be a little bit biased, ... I would have been much happier to see an independent study.

Barbara Wise