Ian Hacking Quotes
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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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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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.
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One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.
