Function Quotes
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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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.
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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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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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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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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.
