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The question of many college quarterbacks is can they operate in the pro game, in the pro system. Can they not only function under the early, especially with our game, but can they do it efficiently?
Jerry Jones
Game
College
Our
System
Only
Operate
Quarterback
Question
Efficiently
Pro
Many
Function
Early
I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
Jess Row
Saying
Justice
Political
Matter
Try
Think
Drawing
See
Individual
Toward
Also
Comfortable
How
Questions
Very
Any
Done
Fiction
Social
Much
Novel
Function
Larger
I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
Jesse Williams
Work
Myself
Home
Me
History
People
School
Parents
Gave
Define
System
Horrible
About
More
School System
Learn
Got
How
Up
Than
Did
The History Of
Grew
Them
Really
Function
Ever
You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing.
Jim Gray
Politics
You
Timing
Always
Hear
Pacing
Function
Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.
Jochen Zeitz
Design
About
Only
Could
Never
Performance
Make
Always
Were
Mattered
Ingredients
Successful
Company
Function
Functionality
Believed
Founder
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
Future
Will
Past
Visions
Tell
Prophecy
Make
Block
Ultimate
Successful
Your
Function
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.
Joel Fuhrman
Health
Our
Nutrients
Fatty
Evidence
Must
Promote
Crucial
Development
Make
Because
Brain
Get
Essential
Diets
Cannot
Them
Much
Bodies
Function
Cardiovascular
Cognitive
Early
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.
Joel Salatin
Soil
Economics
Single
Down
System
Something
Structure
Ecological
True
Idea
Linear
Going
Where
Anything
Break
Farming
Assault
Function
Species
Start
We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.
John Battelle
Future
Beauty
Perfect
Except
Ideal
Combinations
Know
iPad
iPhone
Mobile
Form
Function
Expressions
Right
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
John Drinkwater
Government
Best
People
Will
Analogy
Say
Kind
Take
Highest
Most
Democratic
Realisation
Mean
Fulfills
Function
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson
Achieve
Society
Entering
Neither
Would
Would-Be
Individual
Individual Initiative
Absorb
Mere
New
Without
Nor
Loss
Process
Which
Central
Capitalist
View
Interim
Planning
Function
Initiative
Socialist
Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
John Hutton
People
Seriously
Challenge
Will
Presidency
Aim
Our
Way
Months
Responsible
Responsible Way
Results
Lead
Delivering
Taking
Concerns
Tangible
Mature
Six
Next
Show
Europe
Function
Start
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
Finance
Money
Political
System
Unable
Constant
Paralyzed
Pursuit
Simply
Powers
Campaigns
Political System
Function
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
John Sulston
You
World
Monopoly
Say
Gene
Purpose
Particular
Discovery
Patent
Patents
Human
Just
Just One
Which
Then
Creating
Unique
Even
Function
Actually
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. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.
Jon Lovett
Time
You
Intelligence
Mind
Ability
Potential
Retain
Ideas
First-Rate
Still
Test
Opposed
Inexperience
Same
Confident
Same Time
Hold
Your
Function
Aware
Two
There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
Jonathan Ive
Other
Changes
Computer
Like
Product
Function
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
Joseph Rotblat
Weapons
Deter
Only
Attack
Exist
While
Means
Function
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
Joseph Stiglitz
Great
Trust
Both
Divide
Argued
Economically
Without
Politically
Function
Societies
The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Vital
Put
Primarily
Uncover
Journalism
New
Context
New Information
Condition
Improve
Human
Information
Human Condition
Interest
Public
Public Interest
Use
Function
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
You
Worthless
Phrase
Follows
Take
Never
Baggage
Never Take
Because
Form
Much
Means
Function
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.
Judith Light
Hair
Look
How
Discovered
Anything
Ephemeral
Function
I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.
Julie Brown
Think
Society
Our
Comedians
Make
Which
Icons
Fun
Function
I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
Karan Johar
Music
You
Celebrate
Culture
Song
Cinema
Remember
Wake Up
Dance
Every
Films
Our
Our Lives
Indian
Religious
Song And Dance
Songs
Part
Since
Know
Am
Traditional
Wake
Up
Product
Function
Grown
Ever
Grown-Up
Lives
Watching
Sleep
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
Karen Duffy
Pain
Chronic
Side
Right Side
Responsible
Fingertips
Area
Arm
Brain
Motor
Left
Elbow
Body
Function
Right
Ear
I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.
Karishma Tanna
Dance
Dancing
Generally
Performance
Like
Well
Acting
Function
Award
Actor
I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.
Kathleen Kennedy
Together
Put
Suppose
Attracted
Make
Always
Trying
Happen
Producing
Function
Things
Things Happen
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