#function

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

— Garrison Keillor

#cats #everything #function #intended #nature

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions. ↗

— Tim Roth

#functions #get #i #invited #jewish

There's no other product that changes function like the computer. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#computer #function #like #other #product

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

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

— Francois Jacob

#deepest #functions #future #living #living organisms

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

— Kevin Kelly

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I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#big #big family #craved #dysfunction #family

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#becomes #beginning #certain #certain way #eventually

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? ↗

— Charles Eames

#functional #pleasure #said #who

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#dysfunction #feel #going #i #i think