Famous Quotes & Sayings

Famke Janssen

I personally like to do independent films.

Faith Hill

I'm a very independent woman.

Ezra Stiles

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Jean Rostand

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Jiang Zemin

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state,

Gil Scott-Heron

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

Holliday Grainger

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

Holliday Grainger

I'd love to do more independent films.

Iain Banks

Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.

Gena Rowlands

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

Galileo Galilei

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.

Fred Brooks

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Franz Kafka

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Eric Williams

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

Bernie Sanders

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

Bernie Sanders

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

Bernie Sanders

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

Janelle Monae

I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."

Jane Rosenthal

We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

Etgar Keret

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

Ethan Hawke

I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

Carmen Kass

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Carmen Electra

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

Ewan McGregor

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

Jenifer Lewis

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

Jenna Elfman

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

Gillian Anderson

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

Harry Shearer

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

Fred Seibert

Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

George H. W. Bush

This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

Haile Selassie

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.

Gus Van Sant

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

Jesse Ventura

Donald Trump is not a Republican, he's an Independent.