Ian Hacking Quotes
The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I am a just man.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times, and if you do it, you'll win. Or if you're a swimmer, if you swim a certain time, you will win. In BMX, there are no guarantees.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
