Brandon Stanton Quotes
Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text from the casting director saying that.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
