Brandon Stanton Quotes

Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Military

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Money
  • Way

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Crazy

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Love
  • Way
  • Weird

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • May
  • Free

• 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

  

  Feist
  • Mind
  • End
  • Songwriting

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Real
  • Art
  • Honesty

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

  Van Jones
  • Together
  • Future
  • Winning

• Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

  

  Agnes Denes
  • Work
  • Society
  • Category

• I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Fool
  • Hated

• Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Work
  • Nice