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God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.
I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There's no function to it.
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.
If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.