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Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last. -- Alessandro Baricco
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. -- Dalai Lama
They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. -- Fred Trueman
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. -- Dalai Lama
I like definitive things. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. -- Douglas Adams
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense. -- Joshua Ferris
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. -- Jose Saramago
No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals. -- Maximillian Degenerez
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. -- Fay Godwin
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. -- David Bailey
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument. -- Julia Bacha
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. -- Dave Eggers
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes. -- Florence Welch
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream. -- Gustave Moreau
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river. -- Denise Mina
I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult. -- Keira Knightley
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. -- Edward Albert
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. -- Max Weber
If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. -- Andy Taylor
And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much. -- Fay Godwin
When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.' -- Noam Chomsky
This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life. -- Ann Druyan
When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. -- Eddie Vedder
I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on? -- Marc Jacobs
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant. -- Theodore Dalrymple
If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' -- Lupe Fiasco
I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future. -- Ryan Kwanten
The Text is not a definitive object. -- Roland Barthes
Odd that we think definitions are definitive. -- Larry Wall
Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable. -- Thomas S. Monson
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. -- George Washington
It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer. -- Carolina Herrera
Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph. -- Daido Moriyama
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. -- Andre Gide
Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act. -- Pope Francis
For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie. -- Joseph Kosinski
No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living. -- Leszek Kolakowski
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. -- Octavia E. Butler
Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person. -- Albert Camus
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. -- George Bernard Shaw
The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine -- Emily Saliers
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. -- Octavia E. Butler
A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected. -- Judy Woodruff
Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy. -- Goldie Hawn
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. -- Pat Conroy
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. -- John Shirley
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. -- Natalie Goldberg
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. -- Roger Scruton
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is. -- Robert Plant
Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity. -- David Jeremiah
Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic. -- James Gray
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all. -- Samael Aun Weor
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. -- Justin Halpern
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece. -- Kip Thorne
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed. -- Pope Francis
Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith. -- Eddie Gibbs
In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. -- Scott D. Anthony
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James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots. -- John Guare
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight. -- Willem de Kooning
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it. -- Amy Winehouse
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it. -- David Bowie
The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material. -- Peter Jackson
I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to. -- Terry Fox
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter. -- Christian Metz
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer. -- Matthea Harvey
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious. -- George Washington
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream... -- Gustave Moreau
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over. -- Ross Levinsohn
After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. -- Ken Starr
One of the definitive works on gay life. Through this collective testimony we may come to understand what it is to be 'the other'; in short, the other part of ourselves. -- Studs Terkel
Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose? -- Tom DeLay
God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. -- Pope Francis
I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say. -- Grant Morrison
Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. -- Meir Soloveichik
Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself. -- Jeremy Enigk
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version. -- Tony Bennett
I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool. -- Brian Setzer
Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation. -- Albert Camus
We must know where we want to go in order to get there. Our modern lives are growing increasingly chaotic, and it is only a clear, definitive purpose that will keep us on track. -- Chris Matakas
People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. -- Tanya Huff
Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind. -- Gautama Buddha
The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities. -- Peter A. Sturrock

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