Ian Hacking Quotes
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.Ian Hacking
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
Jack Ma -
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
Natasha Lyonne -
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
Faith Prince -
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
Kate Hudson -
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry -
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
J. C. Watts
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Kanye West -
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
Samuel P. Huntington -
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
N. K. Jemisin -
There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
Ted Cruz -
I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
Eddie Marsan
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How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
Curt Weldon -
It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
Eric Burdon -
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett -
Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?
William Francis Buckley -
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
William R. Alger -
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
Ian Hacking