Function Quotes

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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. — Robert Brustein
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler
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… — Cyril Connolly
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty. — Ricardo Lagos
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog… — Eric Alterman
The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about… — Aaron Yoo
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do. — Tim Berners-Lee
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. — Ang Lee
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in… — Karen Armstrong
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody. — Andrew Davies
Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches… — Jon Landau
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support… — Scott Turow
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want… — Wolfgang Tillmans
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much… — Jeanette Winterson
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out paper. — Dave Barry
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government… — Ronald Reagan
The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose. — Thomas Sowell
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… — F Scott Fitzgerald
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits… — Eric Idle

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