Brandon Stanton Quotes

Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.

Brandon Stanton

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I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Jim DeMint

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I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

Jessica Simpson

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I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

Meg Cabot

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I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.

Matt Cohen

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I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

Stephen Hawking

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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Rose Kennedy

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It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole

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Being a mayor was an awesome, difficult job. Being the chair of the Armed Services Committee was perhaps the most incredible time in my life, because I got up one morning, and the peacenik from Berkeley was chair of the Armed Services Committee, and it was the greatest - one of the great challenges of my life.

Ron Dellums

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I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

Martin Sheen

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There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

Clay Shirky

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Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.

Ashton Kutcher

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

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