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I like definitive things.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
I like shoes that are definitive, and they know exactly what they are.
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.
In the past, I always set definitive goals for myself, but I've stopped doing that.
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I'm never going to work.
When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.
No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.
'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.
Don Juan's story can have no end, and that, on my word, is the definitive and true story of 'Don Juan.'
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
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.
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
Everything takes a vision and I have a very definitive vision of what my future will be like, in the ring and then outside of it.
Wait until you have made a definitive decision, about whatever it is that you are pondering, and then make a public announcement.
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.
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.
There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out.
My hair has always been a definitive part of my personal style, so I love being part of a campaign that celebrates hair as a form of expression.
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.
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.
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I always wanted to be involved with music that would stand the test of time, being on one of those definitive things that you have to have listened to at some point.
At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.
I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.
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.
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.
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
In my view, a review should be like talking to a friend who's just asked you, 'What was it like?' You're giving a verdict on an experience, not trying for a definitive last judgment.
My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.
I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books.
It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.
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.
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.
Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.
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.