Function Quotes
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Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.
Walter Kerr
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
Jack Dee
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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
C.D. Wright
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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
George Washington
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
Keith Haring
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
Farley Mowat
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We have had success getting guys through here with this injury, ... I know it's magnified when it's your quarterback or a player of his magnitude. I understand how it becomes magnified, but we have a track record of being able to manage that injury, and we will see if we can't do the same. If he can't function at some point, we'll shut him down.
Andy Reid
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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
Haris Pasovic
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
Elizabeth Janeway
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Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.
Carl Ludwig
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The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653.
Mike Harding
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
Gaston Bachelard
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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
Antoni Tapies
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
Walter Gropius
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell
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We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.
Elena Ferrante
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The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri
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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.
Plato
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Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.
Jacques Lacan
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One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.
Benton MacKaye
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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
Immanuel Kant