Brandon Stanton Quotes
It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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Working with Jada, Tiffany and Queen Latifah was great. It's so special to get to work with women you've respected for so long, and to get to know them as people. It was like we were on a real girls trip.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.
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It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
