Brandon Stanton Quotes

It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Want
  • Journey

• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Understand
  • Ryan

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Perception

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Like
  • Paris
  • Hong Kong

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• 'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Movie

• Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Fate

• Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Home
  • House
  • Parents

• At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Knowledge
  • Question
  • Wish

• It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Family
  • Education