Harry Frankfurt Quotes

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

Harry Frankfurt

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• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Right
  • See
  • Throw

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Yourself
  • Fight
  • Face

• Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Want
  • You
  • Feet

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Design

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Healthy

• I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Said
  • Going

• WWE doesn't owe us anything.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Anything
  • U.S.
  • Owe

• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Children
  • America
  • High

• The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Fear
  • Stress

• Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'

  

  OMI
  • Up
  • Different
  • Culture

• Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Truth
  • Word

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Movies

• I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Actor

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Money
  • Friends

• The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

  

  David Rittenhouse
  • May
  • Taken

• I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.

  

  Jessica Simpson

• In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Work

• I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • God
  • Soul
  • Father

• I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Father
  • Brooklyn
  • Baltimore