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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How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
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People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.
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When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
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When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
