Michael Rostovtzeff Quotes

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Michael Rostovtzeff

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• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Think
  • Like
  • Independent

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Challenge
  • Independent

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a unique customer. They're aware of what I'm doing. A painter may not have a relationship with a paint maker, but there's only one company that makes Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Country
  • Think
  • Independent

• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Independent
  • Decisions

• How frightening it must be to have your own independent counsel and staff appointed, with nothing else to do but to investigate you until investigation is no longer worthwhile.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Independent

• Modern democracies have been around long enough for neoliberal capitalists to learn how to subvert them. They have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy—the 'independent' judiciary, the 'free' press, the parliament—and moulding them to their purpose.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Long
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Sundance was bullshit. Originally Sundance, Sundance maybe in its first few years, I wasn’t there but I went to Sundance for 10 years and it was a vassal of the majors. It was a vassal. Sundance was there to help Miramax and Fox Searchlight. That’s what was independent at Sundance.

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • Help
  • Independent

• My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Independent

• I am as independent as I want to be, same as Catherine and Harry. We've all grown up differently to other generations and I very much feel if that I can do it myself, I want to do it myself.

  

  Prince William
  • Up
  • Independent

• No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Independent

• Texans are by nature independent people.

  

  Joe Barton
  • People
  • Nature
  • Independent

• I associate creativity with independent music.

  

  Miguel
  • Music
  • Independent
  • Creativity

• Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

  

  Steven Shainberg
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Exist

• I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Force
  • Prove
  • Lie

• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  

  Michael Rostovtzeff
  • Independent
  • Importance
  • Historical