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“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.”

“The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.”

Mind Firsts Order Function Parachutes

Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

“Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.”

Men Heart Age Young Lying Powerful Middle Rocks Movement Flower Band Late Function Impulse Young Man Teens Sixty Misogyny Seventies Fraternity Rock Bands Mods

Author:Michael Chabon

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.”

Moments Desire Values Given Function Impulse

Book:The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

“The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.”

Democracy Mass Function Oppression Secure Exploitation Consent Bourgeois

Author:Tariq Ali

“Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”

Writing Mean Matter Secret Cutting Mines Products Late Criticism Function Too Late

Author:John Steinbeck

“If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves, in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.”

People Ifs Way Wells Helping Shows Passion Grows Audience Function Enthusiasm Genre Genre Is

Author:Matthew Davis

“The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.”

Knows Shows Form Audience Function

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.”

People Real Together Community Mass Accounts Function

Author:John Zerzan

“For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.”

Knows Way Has Beens Book Universe Function Comic Enjoyed Comic Book Hints Really Cool Cool Things

Author:Clark Gregg

“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.”

Civilization Essence Function Visible Wilderness Refuge Urban Horns Intangible Pavement Negation Billboards

Author:Benton MacKaye

“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Choices Term Ability Pleasure Principles Virtue Pride Function Sexuality Denial Concrete Passive Autonomy Embryos

Author:Angela Carter

“Frustration is a function of our expectations.”

Expectations Function Frustration

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

World School Environment Periods Essentials Function Mark Twenties Realization Ritual Collapse Inability Breakdown Usage Pharmaceutical

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us.”

Ifs Way Needs Problem Earth Function Solve

Book:Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.”

Order Universe Quality Roles Divine Particular Higher Judgment Angel Function Administration Humankind Serving God Thrones

Book:In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

Source: In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

“The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.”

Should Ability Pay Principles Safe Function Healthcare Arrangements Adequate Financing Health Services Nhs

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.”

Body Crosses Function Absurdity Thrust Malfunction

Author:Billy Connolly

“I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.”

People Should Important Party Opinion Function Labour Favour Marxism Labour Party

Author:Neil Kinnock

“If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”

Ifs Art Natural Photography Function Stupidity Thanks Allies Multitudes Supplements

Book:Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions

Source: Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions

“A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.”

Needs Function Photograph Explanation Suggestions Explicit

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.”

Firsts Made Two Success Brain Thirds Function Luck

Author:Richard Jeni

“The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.”

Should Moments Animal Function Photographer Technique Poetic

Author:Robert Doisneau

“Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.”

Men Wells Art Reason Difficult Prove Photography Function Photograph Mediums Inevitable Works Of Art Documents Transparent

Book:The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

Source: The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949

“If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.”

Ifs Self Asks Forever Policy Doctors Function Examination Diagnosis Live Forever Self-examination Bodily Functions

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.”

Knows Mean Stills Causes Function Backgrounds Smoke Substance Weed Herbs Crisps

Author:Dave Chappelle

“The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.”

Moments Eye Evil Subjects Effects Movement Function Killing Dimensions Gestures Terminal Arresting Evil Eye

Book:The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

Source: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.”

“Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.”

Pieces Minutes Listening Function Narrative Chamber Classical Music Enrichment

Author:James Ellroy

“I was never very good at math and science, to be honest, so it's fun to play a character that is so scientific and mathematical, and whose brain functions at such a high pace. The biggest difference is that Maura is very linear in her thinking and very logical. I'm not quite like that. I'm much more laid back and not quite so type A. That's the big difference.”

Thinking Play Character Bigs Fun Differences Brain Honest Type Function Very Good Math Mathematical Being Honest Logical Pace Linear Math And Science Laid Back Brain Function

Author:Sasha Alexander

“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”

Needs Humans Looks Persons Art I Can Kids Artist Human Beings Heard Performances Function Breathe Release Artistic Sensitive Look At Me Outlets Sensitive Person Skit

Author:Tinsel Korey

“As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.”

People Feels Sometimes Creatures Married Function Affair

Author:Etgar Keret

“When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.”

World Firsts Ideas Cutting Shapes First Time Function Asking Details Core Scripture Encounters Substitutes Idols Overwhelmed Distracted

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Sure I may look adjusted, but I can't function in normal society because most of you are too stupid.”

Looks May I Can Stupid Normal Function

Author:Daniel Tosh

“From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.”

Has Beens Eye Weapons Function Originals Balloons Satellites Aircraft Sensing

Book:War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

Source: War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception

“Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.”

Facts Might Photography Understood Function Be Good Uncertainty Inventor

Author:John Szarkowski

“I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't function.”

Ifs Thinking World Moving Function Collectives Psychosis

Author:Christopher Titus

“New synonyms for sex: Going to a family function, getting the hard part over with, anti-fillet. Get it? Sex!”

Hard Sex Function Synonym

Author:Dana Gould

“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”

Reality Seems Order Next Lost Greater Television Function Structure Determine Newspapers Magazines Cinema Retreat Imperatives Accord Interpreting Signifying

Author:Douglas Crimp

“The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.”

Suffering Religious Steps Painting Photography Function Justification Replaced Right Direction Photojournalism Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Luc Delahaye

“I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.”

Looks Function Photograph Metaphor Traffic Sublime Symbolic

Author:John Divola

“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”

People Reason Hands Actors Found Difficult Talking Photography Function Cameras Witness Shy Substitutes

Author:Martine Franck

“I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.”

Moments Happens Eye Function Presses Intuitive Gloves Silk Shutters Decisive Moments Cartier

Author:Graciela Iturbide

“One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.”

Reason Artist Function Reactions Mediums Viewers

Book:Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object

Source: Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object

“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.”

Models Function Photograph Metaphor Cease Propose

Author:Thomas Struth

“I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Records Function Majority Photographer Concealed

Author:Arthur Tress

“...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 ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”

“The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.”

People Men Needs Done Winning Felt Church Views Understood Devil Function Entertainment Missions Scripture Doctrine Providing Biblical Amusement

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”

Source: Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals