Harry Frankfurt Quotes

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Harry Frankfurt

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In the past, I travelled with 'The Hero and the Crown' by Robin McKinley: I suffer from a fear of flying, and I felt a bit safer knowing I carried the book and characters with me.

Jesmyn Ward

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The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

Mauricio Macri

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I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

Angela Ahrendts

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I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something genetic there. Maybe just a need to tell stories.

Michael Connelly

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Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Tom Tancredo

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The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

Jarvis Cocker

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What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Allan Sherman

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With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.

Woody Harrelson

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I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I never get a bad Valentine. Nah. Um, no, I've never really had - I don't have a bad Valentine's Day. I never really think... it doesn't come up to my mind.

Prince Royce

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This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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