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A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

~David Ayer

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I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.

~David Carson

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The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

~David E. Sanger

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It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

~David Geffen

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The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.

~David Grinspoon

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Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.

~David Grinspoon

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My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

~David L. Wolper

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My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

~David Mamet

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That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly.

~David Milch

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It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of is it's music where a lot of different elements are played at the same time. The harmonic, the melodic... You're pushing the boundaries on every level. That could be true of rhythm and blues as well. I'm a musician.

~David Sanborn

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