Brandon Stanton Quotes
New York is a giant place and no matter how big you get, there's still going to be a ton of people who haven't heard of you.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'
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With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
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Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
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I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.
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New York is a giant place and no matter how big you get, there's still going to be a ton of people who haven't heard of you.
