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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
I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody — you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.
jim carrey— As quoted in Jim Carrey: Bruce Almighty by Stella Papamichael, at BBC (16 June 2003)
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
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
václav havel— Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
— Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
werner heisenberg— As quoted in The New York Times Book Review (8 March 1992)
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
Of all the more theatrical rock performers, Freddie took it further than the rest... he took it over the edge. And of course, I always admired a man who wears tights. I only saw him in concert once and as they say, he was definitely a man who could hold an audience in the palm of his hand.
freddie mercury— David Bowie, as quoted in "Queen singer is rock's first major AIDS casualty" by Jeffry Ressner in Rolling Stone Magazine (9 January 1992)
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)
Why not? We will definitely give them and charge rent.
lalu prasad yadav— When asked Asked if ICL would be able to use Railway stadiums (Lalu Prasad Yadav backs ICL. NDTV (August 9, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-29.)"
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]
Well, I don’t agree that it’s genocide, but I definitely agree that there’s suffering going on there.
George Galloway— Talksport Radio, September 2, 2006Referring to the Darfur region of Sudan.
My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
mel gibson— Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.
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
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
linus torvalds— Yamagata, Hiroo (1997?11?11). The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
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
We are definitely accusing Glenn Beck of using questionable tactics in order to spread his message and garner higher ratings. You see, we believe Beck uses tactics like the top part of this site ... and he uses them with no disclaimers, with all apparent seriousness.
— Disclaimer on website; cited in — Matyszczyk, Chris (October 24, 2009). "Glenn Beck's legal action against site that parodies, um, Glenn Beck". CNET News (CBS Interactive Inc.). Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
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)
God is growth, God is structure/knowledge, God is everything and nothing simultaneously. And, rather heretically for the Abrahamic religions, to perceive i.e. to cognate i.e. to be of matter i.e. to be structured energy generating a gravimetric field is an aspect of God relating to another aspect of God through light, which is of course God. In this, the underlying metaphysics are most definitely Pandeist.
— Niall Douglas, Freeing Growth - A Neo-Capitalist Manifesto, 2009, page 8.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace (1986), Chapter 5 : The Politics of Hope
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).
My favorite festival beauty look is definitely braids and hats: a messy fishtail braid and a cute outfit, and I'm ready!
Kelsea Ballerini
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
