Brandon Stanton's Blog, page 280

"When she got to be around eighteen or nineteen, I saw that she...

"When she got to be around eighteen or nineteen, I saw that she had talent as a writer. So I stopped telling her she was wonderful, and started telling her what I thought."

“I had thousands of cases, but my biggest accomplishment was one...

“I had thousands of cases, but my biggest accomplishment was one particular case where I actually had the opportunity to help mold the law around a particular subject, but it’s very obscure and uninteresting.”
“What was it?”
“I successfully argued that the rights to geothermal steam belong to the owner of a property’s mineral rights as opposed to the owner of the property itself.”

"The last time I saw my father, he was very sick in a hospice...

"The last time I saw my father, he was very sick in a hospice bed, and we both knew that we’d probably never see each other again. He’d always been a very strong man, but when I had to leave to catch my flight, he grabbed onto my arm and started crying, and he kept asking me if I really had to go. It was almost as if the role of parent and child had been reversed."

"I flew in to surprise a girl for Valentine’s Day, but...

"I flew in to surprise a girl for Valentine’s Day, but turns out she’d already planned to go on a ski trip. So I’m just kickin’ it."

Was honored to speak at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard...

Was honored to speak at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University last night. They did a great job filming it, so if anyone’s interested in some of the thought behind HONY, you can watch the speech here:http://bit.ly/16OGqi8

This is a photo of me making my opening joke.
Because you’ve gotta have an opening joke.
(Photo Credit: Cathey Park)

"My parents both lived with me. When they got divorced last...

"My parents both lived with me. When they got divorced last year, I had to choose which one got to stay."

"We were walking outside my building, and a woman bent down and...

"We were walking outside my building, and a woman bent down and said: ‘Oh look at you! You’re so fat!’ If she was thinking that about a 4 lb dog, I wonder what she was thinking about me."

Today in microfashion…

Today in microfashion…

"I’m going to find a job, goddamnit. Nobody is going to...

"I’m going to find a job, goddamnit.  Nobody is going to force me into retirement at 61.  I moved to New York at the
age of 35 with nothing but $1000 and a cat.  I’ve reinvented myself
once.  And I can do it again."

“All the other males in my family are officers in the Pakistani...

“All the other males in my family are officers in the Pakistani army. I work in a cubicle.”