Function Quotes
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The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
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The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
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My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
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Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
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I was just a total mess and I could not function. My managers were encouraging me to get therapy and I finally did.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.
