Harry Frankfurt Quotes
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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I'm a real people-pleaser.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
