Ian Hacking Quotes
Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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A lot has changed since the 1980s, when the United States was a country with one of the greatest numbers of people infected with HIV.
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I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
