#definitive

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

#back #coming #definitive #ever #extraterrestrial

...give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories, such as Bell Labs, abolish all job titles. Each professional employee is a "member of technical staff. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#sociology

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. ↗

— Victor Salva

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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

#because #believe #could #created #definitive

I like definitive things. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#i #like #things

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ↗

— Stanley Fish

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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. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#definitive #filtered #historical #into #kind

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

#comes #definitive #delivered #even #grunge

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#bipartisan #criticism #daunting #definitive #enough

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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