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• Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

  Alexander Payne

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• To me, at its best, that’s what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

  Dave Holland

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• 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.

  Jeff Hawkins

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• I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can’t function without some sort of domesticity as well.

  Jenny Slate

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• Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don’t distinguish between work and play.

  Cristina Saralegui

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

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• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

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• One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead… to produce future.

  Francois Jacob

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• Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

  Gerry Spence

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• New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen’s stories.

  Radha Mitchell

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• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  Ida Pauline Rolf

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• The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

  Thomas J. Sargent

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• 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.

  Esa Pekka Salonen

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• I don’t function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  Gabrielle Union

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• The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

  Edward Thorndike

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• America should function as a Christian nation.

  Randall Terry

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• Tolerance – the function of an extinguished ardor – tolerance cannot seduce the young.

  Emil Cioran

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• Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

  Christian Lous Lange

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• My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

  Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

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• We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn’t and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

  Genevieve Gorder

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