Ian Hacking Quotes
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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Everything is real on me.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
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I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
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It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.
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Live or die, sink or swim.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.