Brandon Stanton Quotes
In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
Natalie Massenet
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
Kate Moss
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
J. B. Smoove
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
Yoko Ono
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman
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Adam Lambert
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
Gabby Douglas
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
J. R. Smith
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
Natalie Dormer
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
Betty White
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I'm basically always on tour.
Kathy Griffin
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I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.
Mark Gatiss
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
Craig Sager
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In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.
Brandon Stanton