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.
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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.
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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.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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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.
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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.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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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.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. (2.12).
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As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
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I'm really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it's like, 'No, I swear, I'm wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!'
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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.
