Ian Hacking Quotes
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I'm very content.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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I write music every day.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
