Brandon Stanton Quotes

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Brandon Stanton

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LifeExperienceAppreciationNew York

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

John Michael Higgins

ArmyFriendsYouFindNavyAbility

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.

Tom Perez

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If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

Robert Caro

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We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.

Rudolf Steiner

WorldThoughtUniverseKnowWantUs

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

AgeTruthSimpleArchitectureSpace

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Joyce Meyer

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Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

Jay Weatherill

GrowthGreatJobGovernmentStart

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Jason Biggs

QualityThinkEndTableKindBring

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

Jonathan Van Ness

TimeSongFeelRememberOutHow

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

Deb Fischer

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Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.

Christopher Lloyd

TimeImaginationTravelManEnergy

There's no racism with the Internet.

ASAP Ferg

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