Ian Hacking Quotes
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.
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My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.
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I look on life as a joyous adventure.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
