Ian Hacking Quotes

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
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• I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
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  • Gay

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • California
  • Places
  • Software

• I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Rich
  • Development

• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

  

  Harold Evans
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  • Journalism
  • Sweat

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

  

  Iman
  • English
  • Language
  • Better

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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  • Surprise
  • Awards

• 'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.

  

  Ian Harding
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• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

  Ed Rendell
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• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Pretty
  • Cute

• 'What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?'

  

  Peter Greenaway
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  • Happy

• People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

  

  Ben Affleck
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  • School

• I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
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• I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

  

  Ian Hacking
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