Brandon Stanton Quotes

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

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• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
  • Selling
  • Restaurant

• I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Cool

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Movie

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Food
  • Yourself

• Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

  

  Said Musa
  • Government
  • Effort
  • Growth

• And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Women
  • Think
  • Comedy

• In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Environment
  • Financial
  • Down

• Teaching is in my blood.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Blood
  • Teaching

• There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Father

• I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Divorce

• The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

  

  Charles Reade
  • Dark

• Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Wisdom

• If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

  

  Brandon Stanton