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.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Die
  • Day
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beginning
  • Failure
  • End

• 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.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• 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.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Air
  • Ball
  • Hitting

• 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.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Reason
  • Acting
  • Financial

• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  

  Asvaghosa
  • Mind
  • Wisdom
  • Insight

• Most of what we see are white people.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • People
  • See
  • White

• I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Things
  • Survive
  • Dare

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Things
  • Matter
  • Ways