Ian Hacking Quotes
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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We want you to pay attention.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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The most important thing is to stay positive.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.
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I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
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The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.
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Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
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I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
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Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
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Some things just have a short, beautiful life, and some things have a longer one. One hopes that the things that go a long time are things that you love. It's like a relationship. The longer things go, you have to really work on that relationship with your character, with your castmates, the crew your working for, the producers, and the writers.
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Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
