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“I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it functions, but I think that, in some senses, in those two novels, that was difficult for people to see.”

People Thinking Two Difficult Novel Function Senses Testament

Author:Emily Barton

“I think that we're all always just working on finding how that balance functions for us, given today's circumstances.”

Thinking Today Given Balance Circumstances Findings Function

Author:Emily Barton

“I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.”

World Research Function Very Deep Sociopath

Author:Patrick Heusinger

“Sociopaths are more complicated psychopaths; the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is a sociopath is incredibly charming. There are a lot of sociopaths that are CEOs. They don't necessarily kill people but they're able to walk into a big social function and make everybody think they're the kindest, coolest, smartest, most interesting person in the room.”

People Thinking Persons Bigs Able Social Differences Walks Interesting Rooms Function Complicated Charming Ceo Most Interesting Psychopath Sociopath

Author:Patrick Heusinger

“There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW Government's proposed anti-terrorism bill was necessarily unconstitutional - that was sloppy journalism - I said that executive detention may raise constitutional problems if it is seen to be arbitrary as being an invasion of the judicial function.”

Ifs May Said Problem Government Function Raises Bills Terrorism Journalism Executives Arbitrary Invasion Judicial Sloppy Unconstitutional Detention Anti Terrorism

Author:George Brandis

“Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.”

Knows Needs Hate Democracy Function Agendas Affirmative

Author:Jill Stein

“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Helping Seems Kids Able Jobs Political Teach Democracy Trouble Function Complicated Critical Diverse Critical Thinking Political Systems Better Jobs Diverse Society

Author:Barack Obama

“To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.”

Mean Ends Function Enlightened

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.”

Function Movie Sets

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.”

Thinking Art Purpose Differences Design Function

Author:Paula Scher

“Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.”

Knows Looks Art Different Purpose Asks Dog Design Function Hot Delighted Intrigued Hot Dog

Author:Paula Scher

“I think the press, by and large, is what we call "liberal". But of course what we call "liberal" means well to the right. "Liberal" means the "guardians of the gates". So the New York Times is "liberal" by, what's called, the standards of political discourse, New York Times is liberal, CBS is liberal. I don't disagree. I think they're moderately critical at the fringes. They're not totally subordinate to power, but they are very strict in how far you can go. And in fact, their liberalism serves an extremely important function in supporting power.”

“In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims.”

Men Justice Function Victim Condemnation Perpetrators

Author:Erich Fromm

“The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.”

Doe Facts Culture Moral Effects Intellectual Negative Function

Author:Erich Fromm

“Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.”

States Culture Sleep Worst Function Contact Ambiguous

Author:Erich Fromm

“Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.”

Community Poverty Violence Drug Function African American Joblessness Availability

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his view of the world and the person to which the secretary of state would function.”

World Persons States President Term Views Trump Function Agendas Loyal Secretary

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.”

People Doe Age Young Millions Audience Saws Tests Function Response Driving Curious Release Drivers Youtube Phenomenal Texting Texting And Driving

Author:Werner Herzog

“There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is obvious to me is virtual reality or immersive 360 degrees virtual reality is not somehow a part of 3D movies, and it is not a new form of video games, it's neither, it is something completely new, something different, and nobody has come up yet with real convincing content.”

Way Different Real Reality Form Certain Games Example Degrees Function Come Up Obvious Video Narrative Convincing Virtual Reality Continuation

Author:Werner Herzog

“Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?”

Ideas Helping Spiritual Speak Nations Interest Leader Function Welcome Aliens Our Society Immigrants Integrating Spiritual Health Newcomers

Author:Andrew Lam

“In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.”

Thinking Ends States Function Insecurity Rigidity Indecisiveness

Author:Ai Weiwei

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

Nature Teach Intellectual Garden Cat Function Intelligence Kitten Cat And Dog Funny Cat Cat Dog Cat Love Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Kitty Cat Rescue Cats Lake Wobegon

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.”

Knows Soul Universal Function Assuming Intellect

Author:Peter Adamson

“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."”

Used Cities Dog Grew Grew Up Function Ass Construction New Yorkers Kansas Administrative Kansas City

Author:Kevin Sessums

“The whole function of cities has been transformed.”

Has Beens Whole Cities Function Transformed

Author:Cleve Jones

“When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.”

Wanted Film Used Function Catalyst

Author:Sergio Leone

“I didn't want [actress] just to be a woman standing at the window, waving hello and goodbye to men as they came and went in the world that they were struggling through. I wanted her to have a true function.”

Men World Want Wanted Struggle Standing Window Function Actresses Goodbye Hello

Author:Sergio Leone

“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.”

“If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.”

Ifs Mean Position Politician Function Remove Fulfilling Machinery

Author:Malcolm X

“They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.”

Function Prison Propaganda Inmates

Author:Malcolm X

“Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.”

Has Beens Jobs Political Given White Window Machines Function Dressings Window Dressing

Author:Malcolm X

“Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.”

People Ifs Men Problem Given White Position Function Firm White Man Militant Uncompromising

Author:Malcolm X

“Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.”

People Feels Mean Security Function Slogans

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“As the run-by-capital society of producers turned since into the run-by-capital society of consumers, I would say that the main, indeed "meta", function of the governments has become now to assure that it is the meetings between commodities and the consumers, and credit issuers and the borrowers, that regularly take place.”

Government Running Function Meetings Credit Producers Consumers Commodity Borrowers

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.”

World States Would Be Lying Worst Revolution Becoming Expectations Gains Red Function Including Tyranny Managers Isolation Elsewhere Predictions Bureaucracy World Bank

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.”

Humans Wells Important Eye Used Term Moral Special Consequence Tasks Direct Function Claims Harder Critical Performing Remove Devices Expertise Beam

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."”

Should Social Wealth Security Should Have Function Rational Conception Motivated Isolated Social Security

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very structured set-up and it's not conducive to get at the kinds of things I'm trying to portray using the cinematic apparatus to show black sociality and how it functions.”

Trying Kind Shows Problem Hands Form Games Black Function Towns Currents Cinema Cinematic

Author:Arthur Jafa

“One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.”

Organization Function Persist Organisms Anticipate

Author:Kevin Kelly

“As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.”

People Knows Mean Long Certain Numbers Seeing Projects Function Vanity

Author:Gerard Way

“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”

Two Different Order Sides Levels Fields Particular Function Construction Artwork Different Levels

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.”

Way Exercise Concepts Function Claims

Author:Simon Sinek

“A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there is no simple notion of its being "for" some function.”

Way Different Simple Survival Function Property Notion Different Ways Organisms

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.”

Way Real Government Today Danger Function Accountability Representatives Representative Government

Author:Edward Snowden

“There are two pieces of legislation that are related. There's the Communal Land Rights Bill. Then there is the legislation that was approved which has to do with the role and the place and the function of the institution of traditional leadership. Now that legislation, not the Communal Land Rights Bill, provides for the setting up of particular committees that would work together with the elected municipalities.”

Two Together Roles Pieces Rights Land Particular Function Institutions Bills Setting Traditional Settings Related Working Together Committees Legislation Approved Municipality

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows an institution that is set up in terms of the role and function and powers of the institutional traditional leadership ( borrows that committee and uses that committee).”

Use Term Community Roles Rights Land Function Institutions Bills Traditional Manage Committees

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“I don't know why you should isolate women in this regard. If you have a traditional leader who says 'I am the sole exclusive ruler, I am the autocrat', it will affect everybody in the area, whether they are men or women. The challenge that South Africa faces, and it is not a new challenge, a whole range of African countries have faced this challenge, is that where you have institutional traditional leadership, which in our country is protected by the Constitution, how does that institution function side by side with a democratic system?”

“The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our case, we have got to solve the problem. You have got an institutional traditional leadership, which functions in a particular way, in for instance, your communal areas.”

Way Country Problem Challenges Cases Particular Unique Areas Function South Solve Traditional Instance South Africa

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together [with municipal councils], smoothly, and that is part of what this legislation is trying to address.”

Trying Together Challenges Function Traditional Addresses Legislation Council

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local government, but also on the resourcing of local government. Because it may very well be that we say to local government, you have got to run an indigent policy.”

Needs Wells May Matter Reason Government Running Focus Policy Function Raised Locals Reason Why Local Government

Author:Thabo Mbeki

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