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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
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.
-
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?
-
You can't change the market; the market just is.
-
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.
-
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
-
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
-
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
-
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.
-
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
-
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
-
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
-
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
-
I'm not very good at strategizing.
-
The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all.
-
Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
