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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.
I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure.
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
I think it's very easy to get lost in the idea of touring and forget that your body is not a machine and can only function if you treat it with love.
A kiki is any type of social function that's cute at which at no less than 2 but not more than 10 drag queens are in a room together. It's super fun.
Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.
The HMI (human-machine interface) function inside a Ferrari is probably the weakest link in the chain of technical know-how that's embodied in the car.
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.
When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.
The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.
The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
All this could go tomorrow, and I would still know how to function, because I never had nothing before. I went through the struggle - it was a rough life.
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.
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
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.
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.
What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.
It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.
One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.
In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.
If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.