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Quotes About Functioning

America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
~ Ian Frazier
Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
~ James Blunt
If God is not needed for morality, and if language is a spontaneous system, then perhaps the king, the pope and the official are not quite as vital to the functioning of an orderly society as they pretend?
~ Matt Ridley
She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.
~ Ayn Rand
I love this work. I want to see it erected. I want to make it real, living, functioning, built. But every living thing is integrated. Do you know what that means? Whole, pure, complete, unbroken. Do you know what constitutes an integrating principle? A thought. The one thought, the single thought that created the thing and every part of it.
~ Ayn Rand
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Designing the core mechanics consists of identifying the key entities and mechanics in the game and writing specifications to document the nature of the entities and the functioning of the mechanics. This is the very heart of the game designer's job, and the more complex the game, the longer it takes—
~ Ernest Adams
According to him, the firmware on our OIVs has not been altered in any way—it just isn't functioning properly now, due to the changes in Anorak's infirmware.
~ Ernest Cline
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
~ Ernest Hemingway
For me, appropriations bills are the glue. These are the bills that must move, no matter what, to keep the government functioning as a reliable element of our society. The Appropriations Committee shouldn't be the most political place to be; it's the place where we have to make the institution function for the country.
~ Marcy Kaptur
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
~ Michael Bennet
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
~ Jenny Slate
If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
~ Kapil Sibal
You cannot be a good house in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The credibility and the fair functioning of the neighborhood matter a great deal. Without that, the integrity of the capitalist system will weaken further".
~ Bernardo Kliksberg
Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.
~ Bertha Stuart Dyment
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
~ Alan Kay
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.
~ Steve Albini
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.
~ Alan K. Simpson
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
~ Xavier Becerra
The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.
~ Tim Minchin
Ideally, only 10 percent of Taijiquan movement is expressed externally, as 90 percent of the true functioning occurs internally and is unseen by others.
~ Stuart Alve Olson
In a civil society like the United States, that shared reality, that truth, is the core energy that drives the functioning of society.
~ Stuart Stevens
Me sorprendió también con qué presteza y dedicación nos entregamos al dañino ejercicio de la memoria, que a fin de cuentas nada trae de bueno y sólo sirve para entorpecer nuestro normal funcionamiento
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez