Brandon Stanton Quotes
'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.
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It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made.
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Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.
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'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
