Independent Quotes — Page 42

HW

Politician

“I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.”

Important Issues Independent

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Hedrick Smith

Journalist

“I personally make sure that some of my investments are in foreign securities or in international commodity portfolios that are independent of the US dollar. But that's a personal preference. I do not invest in currencies because it's so complicated and so risky. I would not attempt that without excellent professional help.”

Helping Independent Complicated

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“I came out of independent film, that's my roots.”

Film Independent

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George Will

Political Commentator, Author

“Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.”

Political Risk

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.”

Thinking Independent Adventure

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.”

Dream Kissing Independent

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Nicolas Cage

Actor, Producer

“I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.”

Film Independent Roots

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.”

War Party Independent

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George Washington

Military Leader, Politician

“My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.”

Government Independent Honor

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Gerard Butler

Actor

“I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.”

Believe Mean Independent

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Gren Wells

Filmmaker

“Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.”

World Doors Independent

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.”

Independent Iraq Sovereign

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