Ian Hacking Quotes
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?
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I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
