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I just wanted to pay tribute to him and talk about the situation." When asked if it was a conscious thing to give an eastern flavor to the song, Sheik says "definitely... I know that he was, like, a big fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and he was listening to a lot of that kind of music. There's also just a really mournful quality to that kind of string playing." Sheik says, "I wanted to send him off and say a few things about how much his music moved me and other people.
jeff buckley— Duncan Sheik on from Jeff Buckley Newsletter, November 19, 1999 ( )
Many people see Eva Pero n as either a saint or as the incarnation of Satan. That means I can definitely identify with her.
— 1996 On playing Eva Pero n in the film Evita. Quoted in Newsweek, 5 Feb.
It's definitely a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.
david boreanaz— Q&A with David Boreanaz
— Regarding Hollywood
When I knew I was coming to the University of Pennsylvania, I definitely knew I was going to meet some pretty famous and amazing people, but I never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would meet Jared Fogel from Subway.
jared fogle— Jeremy Baron
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. … [T]he primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.
josé ortega y gasset— Chap.IX: The Primitive and the Technical
In a bull market the trend of prices, of course, is decidedly and definitely upward. Therefore whenever a stock goes against the general trend you are justified in assuming that there is something wrong with that particular stock.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over — and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.
scott clifton— Responding to an interviewer question "if you're such a devout atheist, why are your videos about Christianity? ...Why continuously think about something you've 'allegedly' overcome?" YouTube video
I understand... the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you'll be fine for the rest of the way.
miley cyrus— OK! Magazine (January 18, 2008)
There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. … It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.
johnny damon—
It sets a path towards the elimination of nation states and the emergence of a European state in the strictest sense of the word. I'm definitely opposed to it.
lech kaczyński— On the EU Constitution
I don’t know how to get the money but if [the radar] is overpriced, definitely we deserve to be paid ... They cannot take money from a poor country.
jakaya kikwete— Regarding the purchase of the inflated £28m radar from BAE Systems.
I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
bill murray— On his starring role in the drama The Razor's Edge, as quoted in Stills Magazine (1984)
I don’t really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.
Georgia O'Keeffe— About becoming an artist
I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.
jose peralta— Bertrand, Donald (November 7, 2002). "Peralta plan: Biz, Ed, Jobs - Boro's 1st Hispanic state lawmaker eager to start". New York Daily News (www.nydailynews.com). Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.
doron zeilberger— The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper "Automaric CounTilings" that was rejected by Helene Barcelo and the Members of the Advisory Board [that includes(!) Enumeration Expert Mireille Bousquet-Melou] of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory-Series A. [1]
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
woody allen— "Selections from the Allen Notebooks"
I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.
norman angell— After All (1951)
The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.
benjamin graham— Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 24
No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.
josh groban— Teen People Video Short, 20 Teens Who Will Change the World, 2003
How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.
jaggi vasudev— The Times of India, 10 June 2009
Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
larry wall— In the perl man page
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. … He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.
richard weaver— p. 54 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
The Linux game market is larger than the IDC figures would lead you to believe. The market segment in question is largely under served and people will most definitely buy worthy titles to play on it. It is not as difficult to support the so-called myriad of Linux versions out there as you think- there's ways to do it and I can show you some of them.
— Frank C. Earl, quoted in Michael Larabel, "An Interview With A Linux Game Porter" Phoronix (2009-07-03)
You commend, O Krishna, the renunciation of action and you also praise yoga. Tell me definitely which is the better of the two.
— Arjuna; Chapter 5, verse 1; B. Srinivasa Murthy translation
Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
— Dan Quayle, U.S. Representative and Vice President under President Bush, 1977
— Source: Dan Baum, Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (1996).
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
— Linus Torvalds, Yamagata, Hiroo. The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
definitely, decisively, the Nation, for us...and even for them.
antónio de oliveira salazar— Speeches, Volume 4 - Page 278; of António de Oliveira Salazar - Published by Coimbra Editora, 1935 - 391 pages
