Harry Frankfurt Quotes

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

Harry Frankfurt

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Kid

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Famous

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Done
  • Film
  • Snow

• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • You
  • Blow

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • Real
  • Money

• South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Food
  • Difficult

• I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Why
  • Travel

• Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
  • Law
  • Red

• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Time
  • Things
  • Crime

• I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • School
  • Think
  • Impact

• Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Family
  • Art
  • Education

• There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Desire
  • Things
  • Relationships