Truly Independent Quotes

#1. A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Dan Rather

#2. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

James Madison

#3. The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.

Madeleine Albright

#4. There are 2 types of artist:
those who create for others in mind
those who create for themselves
either way, none are truly independent.

Natasha Tsakos

#5. Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

Bob Woodward

#6. If our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.

Edward O. Wilson

#7. I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Victor LaValle

#8. Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need
that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.

Walter F. Mondale

#9. The techniques and skills that really make a difference in human interaction are the ones that almost naturally flow from a truly independent character.

Anonymous

#10. On the one hand, it was nice to have someone who was concerned about you. But on the other hand, you couldn't ever feel truly independent. Marriage was a trade-off. You gave up some things and you gained others.

Joanne Fluke

#11. I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

Christopher Dodd

#12. Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Elizabeth Warren

#13. There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Rick Ross

#14. I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Beyonce Knowles

#15. The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

Lou Henry Hoover

#16. To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Jane Porter

#17. A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

Ayya Khema

#18. The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.

Grover Norquist

#19. Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

Rachel True

#20. Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Haile Selassie

#21. When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#22. Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

David Novak

#23. Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.

Dane Cook

#24. The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

Bob Ney

#26. Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home.

David Grossman

#27. It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers and directors who truly have their own vision, and that's hard.

Steve Buscemi

#28. When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free.

Steve Pavlina

#29. We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own.

Abraham Ruiz

#30. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

Milan Kundera