Brandon Stanton Quotes

My interviews are very pointed. I'm an active participant; I will kindly interrupt people. But I've learned there is nothing people won't tell you if you ask in a compassionate and legitimately interested way.

Brandon Stanton

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PeopleYouNothingWillWayActive

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

Matthew McConaughey

HeartPeopleSucceedEnoughDownUs

Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.

Steve Erickson

ArtPeopleNiceHerSomeMany

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

LifeWritingFeelMy LifeWhole

I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating.

Mike Schultz

SmilePeopleCreatingFortunateGet

The national pastime is juiced.

Jose Canseco

PastimeNationalNational Pastime

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Jonathan Dimbleby

BetterYouPlaceDamnSomething

You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.

Derek Jeter

WinYouGamesEverythingPlayer

If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.

Donovan Bailey

TimeStepTeamYouLostClock

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.

Ashley Tisdale

ParentsMeMomAlwaysTattoosSure

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Allan Savory

TechnologySpaceComputersClothes

'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

Lynn Nottage

LonelinessWomanGenerationPlayMTV

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Linus Torvalds

YouWillTryOutSideSomething

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