CB Claude Bernard Physiologist “The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.” Life Science Independent ♥ 3
CP Cornelia Parker Artist “Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.” World Independent Cry ♥ 3
Beyonce Knowles Singer “I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.” Children Jobs Independent ♥ 3
Bill Murray Actor, Comedian “The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."” Giving Guy Independent ♥ 3
Billy Campbell Actor “I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.” Play Independent Cowboy ♥ 3
Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher “Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.” Art Independent Natural ♥ 3
AC Alastair Campbell Political Consultant, Author “He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.” Believe Independent Paper ♥ 3
Albert Einstein Physicist “If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.” Thinking Space Independent ♥ 3
Albert Einstein Physicist “The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.” Race Independent Discovery ♥ 3
Andrea Jung Business Executive “That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.” Important Women Independent ♥ 3
Andrew Weil Author “I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.” Thinking Independent Contentment ♥ 3
Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician “Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.” Independent Conversation Circumstances ♥ 3
