Function Quotes

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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,… — James Dean
One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains… — Alison Stewart
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… — Holly Marie Combs
CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov… — Marilyn Tavenner
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is… — Diane di Prima
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel
Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination. — Lorraine Moller
The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually,… — Nick Harkaway
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell… — Michael Ruhlman
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over… — Roderick T. Long
My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within… — Bill Buxton
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he… — Aldo Leopold
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' — Oscar Niemeyer
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,… — Toni Morrison
We now haveÂ irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high… — Dick Cheney
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world… — Pat Metheny
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Princess Marie Bonaparte

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