Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

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

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

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.

George C. Scott

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Christopher Dodd

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

Christian McKay

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Chris Rock

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

Havelock Ellis

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

Hans Frank

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

Greta Van Susteren

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

Gerhard Schroder

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

Henry David Thoreau

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

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.

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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Hassan Nasrallah

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

Harvey Weinstein

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.