Ian Hacking Quotes
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.
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If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it.
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In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible to increase the supply of oil by banning drilling in all sorts of places and preventing any new refinery from being built anywhere in the country in the last 30 years.
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
