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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.
In my plan, I call for breaking up ICE and returning its enforcement functions to the Department of Justice.
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
No public servant or legislator can claim any privacy to take money for conducting their official functions.
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
I love sweets, but don't have them every day. I have them maybe once a week or during social functions or festivals.
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.
As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.
We're all functions of our societies, right? And we all become who we are because of the invisible forces that mold us.
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.
People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.
Most companies overlook the most basic of all training functions: the onboarding of new employees into their corporate culture.
If talented people across teams, functions, and geographies share the same passion and dedication, the results can be remarkable.
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.
I think kitchen real estate is very valuable, so something has to perform multiple functions for me to give it space in my drawers.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.
Even though I perform at all kinds of functions, college events are always my favourite because of the kind of energy you get there.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
I love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with.
I think that continuity is the most important way to create a city that functions properly and has a competitive edge in the international era.