Ian Hacking Quotes

The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

Ian Hacking

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ChildrenAchievementSchoolParents

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of.

Jim Mitchell

TimeCreateMoreScarcityCommodity

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

GreatChildBirdsStoryFurniture

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.

Michael Fishman

Make A DifferenceKidDifferenceMake

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

Midge Ure

GoodGreatBeginningFunSmallFeel

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

Michael Moore

RelationshipSpiritualBelieveGift

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Bryan Adams

TimeYouBackGoThreeMore

It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.

Bob Beckel

TimePoliticalElectionDoneReview

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

LifeBrainyLivingGiveGetMake

The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.

Poliana Okimoto

NatureWeatherSwimmingPoolDown

I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.

Pawel Pawlikowski

LifeHumblePeopleStoryThought

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Norman Mailer

LifePurposeThinkHereAbsurdHuge

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.

Moshe Safdie

HouseLivingSomethingMachineElse

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