Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.
I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'
We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.
