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

• Father
• Brooklyn
• Baltimore
• Bookkeeper

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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
  • See
  • Right
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Hope
  • Learning
  • Demon

• I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Sex

• As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

  

  Charles Bass
  • House

• I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Ambition

• It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Friends
  • Weird

• One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Hand
  • Fly

• One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • My Life
  • Sitting

• If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Business
  • Father

• I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Truth
  • Father
  • Selfish

• I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.

  

  George W Truett
  • Father
  • Christ
  • Fault

• 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