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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 ( )
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
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—
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter." Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.
— As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 295
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.
Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.
keira knightley— Interview for the Daily Mirror (August 2004)
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.
Ever since quantum phenomena became definitely recognized many attempts were made to picture their mechanism.
— in his early Quantum Mechanics paper On King's Classical Theory of Radiation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 1, 1927, vol. 13, no.3, p. 97-100.
When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
john prescott— Oliver Burkeman, "Election 2005: Aggressive and voluble - but the real thing", The Guardian, 21 April 2005, p. 6.
— Referring to the slogan used by Michael Howard during the 2005 General Election campaign.
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)
For me the intentions of background music are openly political, and an example of how political power is constantly shifting from the ballot box into areas where the voter has nowhere to mark his ballot paper. The most important political choices in the future will probably never be consciously exercised. I'm intrigued by the way some background music is surprisingly aggressive, especially that played on consumer complaint phone lines and banks, airplanes and phone companies themselves, with strident non-rhythmic and arms-length sequences that are definitely not user-friendly.
j. g. ballard— As quoted in Elevator Music (1994) by Joseph Lanza
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
There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all
björk guðmundsdóttir— "Human Behaviour" (single; 1993)
What you're saying is 'Has a historian the right to offend?' and the answer is very definitely, yes.
david irving— Interview with John Humphrys on The Today Program (23 December 2006)
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))
If one day I have a stroke, then that will tell me that being ROC Culture Minister is not worth it for me. As long as I am still in this position, I will definitely do my best until one day when I decide that it is not worth it anymore.
lung ying-tai— Lung Ying-tai (2013) cited in "PTS row 'worst' int'l scandal: Lung" on The China Post, 23 May 2013
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
If the Purana written by Vyasa were still existing, then it would be honoured as a “Sruti”. In the absence of this Purana and the one written by Lomaharshana, the eighteen Puranas that still exist cannot all be given the same place of honour; among them, the Vishnu and the Bhagwata Purana composed by accomplished yogis are definitely more precious and we must recognise that the Markandeya Purana written by a sage devoted to spiritual pursuits is more profound in Knowledge than either the Shiva or the Agni Purana.
— Sri Aurobindo, in "Sri Aurobindo Writings in Bengali Translated into English".
All the objects in the external world are definitely projections of shakti, the power of consciousness , but the waking state is not a product of your mind .
— Swami Rama, in "OM the Eternal Witness: Secrets of the Mandukya Upanishad (25 September 2007)", p.22
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.
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
— Yamagata, Hiroo. The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
