Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

Jessica Lange

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

Jerry Hall

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

Jeremy Bentham

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

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.

George Edward Woodberry

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Famke Janssen

The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.

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.

Elton John

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

Ella Baker

Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.

Ian Chappell

I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring

Hugh Jackman

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Hugh Jackman

Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence showing that a wide variety of independent conditions all reached optimality during the identical narrow epoch when human beings appeared on the cosmic and terrestrial scene testifies of supernatural design and purpose rather than mere coincidence.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

Henry David Thoreau

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Henry David Thoreau

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Henry David Thoreau

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Chris Wedge

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

Chris Pratt

'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.

Mike Pence

[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?