Ian Hacking Quotes
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Quotes to Explore
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.
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Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
