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Ian Hacking Quotes

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: canadian
Birth: February 18, 1936

Topics

Matter Things Issues Settling About

A teenager can find lots of games, but that's not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire more intellectual, emotional experiences. If you look at film, there's many different genres. No matter how old you are, you can find the type of movie you like. That's a sign of a mature medium.

You Look Find Desire True Mature

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

Creativity Tired Writing Book Enough

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music Listening Think Parent Kids

I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.

I Am Me Feet Better Enough Stronger

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.

Change Home January Perspective Year

Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.' Nobody. Nobody wanted to make 'The Purge.' I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make 'The Gift,' when it was a script called 'Weirdo.'

Gift Think Nobody Three Floating Us

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Wisdom Honesty World Wealth Bread

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

Life Work Live Culture Value Happy

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

AnnaLynne McCord

Confident Need Always Guy Because

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Talking Always Open Up Going Close

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

Myself Now Never Planned Comedian

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

Power I Am Hair Saying Look True

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