Ian Hacking Quotes
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
