Function Quotes
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The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret fr...
Starhawk
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I`m talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
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I don`t think it`s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
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I don`t think it`s the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
A. J. Liebling
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This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises ...
Robert Penn Warren
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Unknown
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we...
James Dean
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[on Bernardo Bertolucci] "For me, Bernardo is The Function. The only way I can explain it is in the analogy with mathematics and the word `function` - addition, subtraction, multiplication, anything that numbers go through and change because of it. And wh...
Debra Winger
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[on Bernardo Bertolucci] "For me, Bernardo is The Function. The only way I can explain it is in the analogy with mathematics and the word `function` - addition, subtraction, multiplication, anything that numbers go through and change because of it. And wh...
Debra Winger
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one`s potential.
Bruce Lee
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I don`t think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic ...
Stanley Kubrick
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I`ve been told that I`m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn`t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.
Diablo Cody
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The guys with the power in Hollywood today, the guys with their names above the title, are thieves. They don`t make movies, they make deals. Their major function is to cut themselves in for ten per cent of the gross - off the top, of course - which is why...
Mickey Rooney
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These guys [his TV characters] are about a half-step behind life`s parade. The ink on their instruction sheets is beginning to fade. But they can function and cope, and don`t realize they are driving people up the walls. (in a 1983 interview)
Tom Poston
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It was an accident, although I`ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child: in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people`s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all ha...
James Dean
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To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
Jayne Mansfield
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I don`t know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it`s more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain ...
Isabelle Huppert
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(On motherhood) It`s weird. When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when he was three months old and the first few months were rough. And then somehow you learn to exist on no slee...
Holly Marie Combs
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As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that`s about how much you put yourself out there. It`s not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy...
Reese Witherspoon
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