Brandon Stanton Quotes
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
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'Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?' asked Shimrod. 'Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.'
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.
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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
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And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
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If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.
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You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
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Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.
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Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.
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I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.
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Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
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If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
