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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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
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I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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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.
