Ian Hacking Quotes

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Weird
  • Someone

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?

  

  Nas
  • Black
  • Know
  • Green

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Me
  • President
  • Excuse

• Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Money
  • History
  • Guy

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Up
  • Done
  • Couple

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Why
  • House
  • Culture

• I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • God
  • Heart
  • Green

• Uniforms ruin every character

  

  Max Frisch
  • Character

• A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Clouds
  • Focused
  • Sunlight

• Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Help
  • Rules